7 years ago I got a bulb of lilium michiganense from the UK. The bulb grew, but then desintegrated and rotted..left where a few tiny scales on which minuscule rice grain bulblets had formed.
I rescued these and patiently fed them and grew them on in pots...as the years passed, they grew larger and larger every year. When almost bursting the pot, I depotted them and planted them out in a border, where i kept feeding them to build size, hoping every year for the first flower of this superb sp...
this summer, i was extremely excited, as the largest bulb produced its first bud. In anticipation i saw it colour, and was overexcited when it began opening!
but my excitment was quicklly tuned down as i discovered that the flower, in my opinion, looked much more like lilium pardalinum than michiganense....
It flowered 2 weeks or so later than my pardalinums. What is strange is that the leaves seem intermediate between pardalinum and michiganense..more pointed and almost in an upright whorl, while my pardalinums tend to have more rounded leaves which drop down a bit in their whorls up the stem.
what do you think? is this simply a form of pardalinum?
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