Lilium 2020

[Claire Cockcroft]

It is cardiocrinum time.  The weather has been cool, so the short-lived flowers are slow opening and may last until the heat hits at the end of the week.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Okay, so cardiocrinum isn't lilium.  Here is one I think is Lilium pardalinum ssp. pardalinum.  It showed up in a pot.

[Rick R.]

Nice, Claire!

Lilium pensylvanicum (dauricum) is the first bloom for me.
This one from seed collected on Sakhalin Island.




Lilium pensylvanicum (dauricum alpinum)


Other L. pensylvanicum pics.

[shelagh]

Lovely lilies or not from you both. I have 3 stems on my Martagon lily and I'm just waiting for them all to open.

[Knud]

Beautiful lilies, the tiny L. pensylvanicum and the statuesque Cardiocrinums.

A few lilies have started blooming here the last week or so. The smallest one is the L. oxypetalum var insigne, I got the bulb from Pitcairn Alpines some years ago. The largest one (so far) is a L. pyrenaicum from SRGC seed. The one pictured has five flowers, most of the others have 2-4, but one has seven flowers. The last one I do not know what is. It is tall, about 90 cm (3 feet), has strap-like leaves, and a single very pure orange flower on a thin stem. Any suggestions?

[Rick R.]

That's a very neat form of pyrenaicum!

Your mystery lily looks and sounds like Lilium callosum, to me.

[Claire Cockcroft]

Those green stripes on L. pyrenaicum are fantastic!
...Claire

[Gerdk]

Lililum pomponium - seeds collected 1993 in the French Southern Alps -
some years ago nearly lost by a slug attack but this time feeling alright

Gerd

[Knud]

Thank you Rick. Having now read about L callosum it does seem like it, except for its size (big at about 4 cm across) and that it blooms now, early compared to descriptions I find of L. callosum blooming in July and August.

The green stripes are very nice, Claire. I have three groups from the original seedlings, they all have some green, but the group of the one in the photo has the most prominent green stripes.

[Rick R.]

Interesting about pomponium.  I didn't know they ever had any black markings. 

Knud, the pot in my pic above is a 9.2cm square, 15cm deep.  The white name tag is a mini blind, 2.5cm wide.  When the tepals are recurved, the flowers are 2.5  up to 3.5cm across, with the dozen or so plants I have grown.  Mine are from wild seed collected in Russia.  Flora of China says: tepals 3--4.5 cm × 4--8 mm   (not recurved)
http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027706
I am in USDA zone 4, and they bloom in early to mid July.  My spring starts much much later than yours, but my summers are hotter.  I am not sure how that might translated for bloom time.

Good luck with your ID.  I don't think there are any other lilies similar to callosum.

[Knud]

Thanks again Rick. I measured the bloom to just under 4 cm recurved. I think our USDA zone is 7, but this winter was very mild so even our early bulbs were early this year. I think I am likely the proud grower of a Lilium callosum.

[Leena]

Lilium pomponium looks nice, I have never heard of it before.

In 2014 I sowed seeds of L.kesselringianum from seed ex, and the first flowered last year with one flower. This year is is much taller with more flowers, and very nice I think. I love that pale yellow colour.

[Hoy]

martagon hybrid. I don't have many lilies due to beetle problems but here is one species doing good in the "woodland". Difficult light though!

[Leena]

That is a nice dark martagon hybrid. Martagon lilies are my favourites, even with lily beetles.
This one opens it's flowers white, but soon they turn to creamy yellow. It is an old nameless one.

[DaveM]

I do like these species lilies. Here's another deep claret red martagon. This one is a MESE421 collection from lower slopes of Mount Vermion, Greece which we named as 'Naoussa boutari'.


Also just coming into flower (from the SeedEx) Lilium pardalinum


And finally flowering a couple of weeks ago, Lilium szovitsianum