Lilium 2016

[Steve Garvie]

Some late lilies in flower here.
I think the first two are both variants of Lilium primulinum burmanicum.
The third is Lilium primulinum Rock's Var.

[Cfred72]

very beautiful. what size are the flowers? to see the pollen grains, they should not be very large.

[Steve Garvie]

very beautiful. what size are the flowers? to see the pollen grains, they should not be very large.

Many thanks.
These lilies are quite tall (1.2-1.6m) with fairly large flowers of 11-14cm diameter. They have a wonderful scent. Flowering is late in the season -too late to get seed set unfortunately.

[Cfred72]

Speaking of seeds and wonderful smell ... The Lilium regale have seeds. I am in full harvest. What will I do with all this?

[Cfred72]

Some seeds began to sprout in the pods.

[fixpix]

Wow, impressive amount of seeds.
I think you are in trouble.
Maybe go to some fields and spread them in the wind? 😉

[Cfred72]

I had already sown, on the fly, this year, in a new raised bed late January. Many have germinated. Now, I give to whoever wants. The photos below are:
1) young leaves half of January 2016.


2) and 3) parents.

[vanozzi]

Very nice forms of  Lilium primulinum, Steve, especially Rock's var. It's not in my collection unfortunately.

L. lankongense remains my favourite species, maybe because it is so easy!  :)Here are two differnt coloured clones.

[Cfred72]

Lilium lankongense is actually a very beautiful species. It germinates easily when you sow its seeds. Here, a semi made inside the house on October 14, 2016.

[izunamyojin]

I'm looking for L. aur. ssp. rubravitium "Apollo" and other L. aurt rub specimens.  Any chance I can get a scale or two?   There's a nice clone from Japan but they want $140/each

http://iwasaki.shop-pro.jp/?pid=110718799

email me, izunamyojin@gmail.com

[partisangardener]

This exceptional nice lily reminds me very much of an oriental hybrid "Tiger Woods" Very sturdy stems.
https://www.fluwel.com/lilies/tigerwood.html

[izunamyojin]

Yes "Tiger Woods" is close, but it's a hybrid like you said.  "Apollo" is the only l.a.rub clone I know of that was in cultivation.  There may be others but I think of any.  I'd love to get it and try to reintroduce it.  I think it was a pretty good performer.

[partisangardener]

Is it certainly a non hybrid? Where was it found?
This should be clear before reintroduction.
Only one clone of this variety keeps me in doubt.  Without another clone there will be no pure seeds.

[partisangardener]

maybe this helps
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=721.0

[izunamyojin]

Eddie McRae had several l.aur.rub he had collected over the years.  He crossed them and almost all were the standard white w/ yellow stripe.  Some were tinted with a little red, but very few if any were what he called the "deep ox blood" red that he was looking for .  Not sure the genetics there.  There was no consistency with regards to ratio that you expect to see in a recessive trait.  It was more in line with a mutation.  it apparently occurs often enough that it creeps up here and there.  But crossing to Reb Bands doesn't produce Red Bands at any predicable ratio.  It's a total crap shoot.  But He did say that he got more and closer by crossing red band with each other that with a standard or a pink band (ssp. pictum). 

 If I can locate good red bands like "Apollo" or that Japanese Mt. Hokone clone (I think that's where they say it's from) then maybe we can get some good deep ox blood red bands.

Any suggestions?