Is there a yellow form of Lilium tigrinum?

[Rodger Whitlock]

I have a lily flowering with no label in the pot and it *looks* like it might be a yellow Lilium tigrinum. I have a faint memory of having bought such a thing some years ago.

PS: Google led me to a posting by Jim McKenney from 2004 in which he addressed this very question — from me.

No further replies necessary after Paul T's.

[Paul T]

Rodger,

Yes there is.  Lilium lancifollium flaviflorum if memory serves me correctly.

[gote]

Perhaps not nesessary but someon could be interested in what it looks like.
These pictures are scans from slides from the mid-seventies.
The voles eradicated all these. I have recently raised new ones from seed. They come true from seed but have also the typical black bulbils.
Göte

[Lesley Cox]

I think that yellow is much nicer than the old, original orange.

[Stephenb]

I have some plants from AGS seed of this form about 3 years ago - will they be yellow though?

[gote]

I have some plants from AGS seed of this form about 3 years ago - will they be yellow though?

Very likely. I have got 100% true from seed two times
Göte

[gote]

I think that yellow is much nicer than the old, original orange.

Yes it is. There are better oranges like tsingtauense but they are over when lancifolium is in flower so I am happy when I can have both.
Göte

[David Shaw]

This is our Lilium lancifolium flaviflorum. Only one stem yet but maybe, one day, there will be a display like Gote's.

[gote]

This is our Lilium lancifolium flaviflorum. Only one stem yet but maybe, one day, there will be a display like Gote's.

In a couple of years you will have it. It is not fussy at all. Just grow it as the normal lancifolium. The bulbils will give you a quick increase.
Göte

[Stephenb]

I hadn't noticed that my plant was going to flower; I think I was distracted as I found my first ever lily beetle on it (lucky me!) and I was inspecting the leaves every day for larvae. I thought it was from seed, but isn't flowering from seed in 2 years a bit fast. Now, I wonder if I received bulbils (It was from AGS and they have a section of bulbs and bulbils).

[gote]

It is indeed fast. Even from a bulbil, this is fast considering the number of flowers you have got. Some lilies flower year 2 but rarely with more than one bud. I think it took me three seasons from seed to get the first flower.
Göte

[Jim McKenney]

Let's take another look at this question. I think the answers we have gotten so far are answers which have a built-in confusion of nomenclature and systematics.

When I said tiger lily in my original question, I meant the triploid tiger lilies of our gardens. I did not mean the diploid plants which have been making the rounds.

As far as I know, there has never been a yellow-flowered tiger lily which corresponds to the old triploid tiger lilies of gardens.

If such a thing exists, I would very much like to have a bulbil to get started with it.

Over the years I have received several plants purporting to be yellow tiger lilies. They are not. I don't know what they are, but they bloom earlier than the triploid tiger lilies.

[gote]

Another case when the scientific name is better.
I think that it would be very unlikely that we will find a yellow triploid L lancifolium.
The reason for the triploidy seems unknown.
The sheer numbers of triploids is probably the result of that it has been grown for food a very long time.
Tripling seems to me unlikely to occur spontaneously very often. The same goes for the sporting to yellow.
The odds against a combination and that that combination is spotted, saved and grown must be enormous.
Considering the risk of L lancifolium being a "silent carrier" of virus, I would like to lay my hands on seed of the diploid form.
Göte