Lilium, July 2014

[Tony Willis]

thank you,I am glad you enjoy them.As to the question I have not grown Lilium taliense and so am not able to make a comparison. Pictures I have seen look very similar but then I do favour lumping.

[Susan Band]

When you grow both you can tell the difference although they perhaps look the same from photos. Dare I say lilium deucartrei looks coarser and taliense more refined. Taliense can also have a shading of pale lemon.  Here is what I have as taliense, 1st picture and deucartrei 2nd
Susan

[Susan Band]

Nice polanei tony

[johnstephen29]

Here are two lilies flowering in my garden at the moment, the first I think maybe L.henryi, but I'm not sure, the label disappeared long ago. The second is L. philippinense, this is a tender lily in the UK, I overwinter mine in it's pot in the greenhouse. It's worth the hassle when you are rewarded with flowers like these. I have had it two years now and have last year and this the lily beetles leave it alone, but attack my other lilies, not that I'm complaining.

IMG_0065.JPG by johnstephen29, on Flickr


IMG_0077.JPG by johnstephen29, on Flickr

[Rimmer de Vries]

Can anyone put a name to this Lily?
It is like a daintier L. pardalinum, much shorter and smaller flowered.

if everything seems a bit squashed as in short filaments, flattened flower etc.
it could be lilium pardalinum var. shastensis form North California

[Robert]

if everything seems a bit squashed as in short filaments, flattened flower etc.
it could be lilium pardalinum var. shastensis form North California

Rimmer,

From what I have seen in the wild, my own garden, and your photograph, your lily could be var. shastensis. Are the flowers smaller than what you normally see with L. paralinum var. pardalinum? I'm certainly no authority on this, so hopefully someone will have a definitive answer for you.

In my experience, the native pardalinum type lilies in NW California can be very confusing. At times it seems that every mountain, or ridge has something different. It appears to me that a fair amount of natural hybridizing and gradation is going on. This is when is wish that Wayne Rodrick was still with us. I would ask him.