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Lilium bulbiferum, common names orange lily, [2] fire lily, Jimmy's Bane, tiger lily and St. John's Lily, is a herbaceous European lily with underground bulbs, belonging to the Liliaceae. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The Latin name bulbiferum of this species, meaning "bearing bulbs", refers to the secondary bulbs on the stem of the nominal subspecies.
Lilies seed germination is classified as either epigeal or hypogeal.These classifications may be further refined as immediate or delayed. Whether a lily is epigeal or hypogeal may be related to survival strategies developed according to the climate where the lily originated.
Lilium papilliferum - China, in Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan; Lilium paradoxum - Tibet endemic; Lilium pardalinum - California, Oregon, Baja California; Lilium pardanthinum - Myanmar and China in Sichuan and Yunnan; Lilium parryi - California, Arizona, Baja California, Sonora; Lilium parvum - California, Nevada
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Lilium regale is a long-lived, stem-rooting herbaceous perennial growing from an underground bulb. The leaves are borne at irregular intervals on the stem. Plants grow up to 2 meters high, though 1.2 to 1.5 meters is more common in the garden. The flowers are 14 cm long, funnel or trumpet shaped, white with yellow throat, flushed purple outside.
Notholirion is a small Asian genus of bulbous plants in the lily family, Liliaceae. [2] It is closely related to Lilium, but each individual flowers only once, and then dies after producing offsets.
Lilies (far right) growing in the Paradiesgärtlein, Meister des Frankfurter Paradiesgärtleins c. 1410 Lilium candidum (Madonna lily) The type genus, Lily ( Lilium ), has a long history in literature and art, and a tradition of symbolism as well as becoming a popular female name , and a floral emblem , particularly of France ( fleur-de-lis ).
It was allegedly in 1867 that a man named John Joshua Jarmain operating from Yokohama became the first commercial exporter of Japanese lilies, [4] though the species of lily is not clarified. The mint exporter Samuel Cocking of Yokohama also exported lilies from the early 1800s, [ 5 ] presumably of the L. auratum species, which is the local ...