Lilium 2009

[Paul T]

Gote,

Beautiful!!  I love the turk's cap types.  Must admit I had never really noticed cernuum or hansonii until seeing pictures of them this year.  Both look like they're stunning!!  Thanks so much for the pics

[Otto Fauser]

Ian , your L. grayi and duchartrei are just superb -congratulations !What is the magic recipe?
 my L. duchartrei runs about - some square meters - but never more than 3-5 flowers per
stem . Probably not cold enough here .
     otto.

[Paul T]

Otto,

I've sown seed of duchatrei this year, so I hope mine does as well.  Somehow I don't think it will run about much here though.    Wouldn't mind if it did. 

[ichristie]

Hi, thanks for kind words but I do nothing special, just let them grow sending out stolons which produce maybe only one or two flowers then as they get bigger and better. here is another picture taken today Lilium leichtlinii,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Maggi Young]

There is a Lilium ID query here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3868.new#new

..... help, please?

[gote]

A Lilium I call tsingtauense (I got the seed under that name) is flowering now. I cut one and put in a vase to show the habitus with a single whorl. There are next to no leaves below the whorl. Some say that it is a hybrid between the "real tsingtauense" and distichum basing this perhaps on the slightly irregular flowers. I doubt. These are 130 cm and my distichum is only 95cm and very slender with a peculiar way of growing. The flowers are about third the size of these.

Lilium concolor was first described from an unspotted (and rare) type. When the normal was found it was named var pulchellum.

The third lily came from seed labeled lijiangense. I doubt. The flowers are much lighter in colour, the pedicel is not so bent and there is adifferent feel to the whole plant. ideas anyone??

Cheers
Göte

[David Shaw]

Wow, I have only just seen your Lilium duchartrei (must change the spelling on my label), Ian. It is magnificent. Mine only has one flower head yet, how long will it take to make a multiple head?

[ichristie]

Hi David, I am not sure how long you have grown your Lilium duchartrei but i have several with 5, 6 flowers on a stem and do nothing special,  cheers Ian the Christie kind.

[Susan Band]

Gote,
I think your seedling might be L. taliense. I grew some for my own seed and the 2 which have flowered so far are different colours of cream/pale yellow. Does is have bulbs along an underground stolon?
Attached is the parent.
Susan

[gote]

Gote,
I think your seedling might be L. taliense. I grew some for my own seed and the 2 which have flowered so far are different colours of cream/pale yellow. Does is have bulbs along an underground stolon?
Attached is the parent.
Susan

I have thougt about that or xanthellum. It is difficult when there is only one flower. the pedicels and the way the sit are sometimes an indication. It looks like your pictue except thatit is slightly yellowish. Your pedicel is different but you have a multiflowered plant. It came up where the bulb is. I do not think itis stoloniferous - (Lijiangense is not).
Thank you for your input
Göte

[Susan Band]

Yes Gote, I thought that too. I am not sure what the difference between L. taliense and xantheum is apart from the colour and as I said a seeedling from the white taliense came yellow like yours. I would say it is not lijiangense as all the ones I have seen are the strong yellow and have thicker stronger leaves and thicker petals. I think you would need to grow both  L. taliense and xantheum together to work out which is which. At the moment I only grow one which I am calling taliense until someone tells me different.
Susan

[Susan Band]

Then of course there is L. fargesii
Susan

[Lori S.]

Lilium cernuum var. album

[Paul T]

Lori,

Isn't that just so beautifully pristine?    Strikingly beautiful.  Thanks.

[Ragged Robin]

Gorgeous Lori, so simply pure and a beautiful shape