Re: Tiger Lily

RHS bears out the previous information and, in addition, lists another
variety of lancifolium -Lilium lancifolium var. fortunei, which is densely
woolly.

BTW, besides Tiger Lily, Lilium lancifolium is also known as Devil Lily and
Kentan.

Kitty
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From: <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Tiger Lily


> Mardi,
> Re your Tiger Lily, I found a lot of ambiguous information but narrowed
things
> down to something that makes sense.  You said, "the tiger lily was marked
> Lilium tigrinum splendens"  I knew that tigrinum had been changed to
> lancifolium.  In newer taxonomy two names in lower case are no longer
> permitted, but this did occur when tigrinum was used.  However, it could
also
> have been that the "var." (variety) portion had been dropped, or that it
was
> actually a cultivar name which should have been capitalized. Several
different
> sites I visited exhibited all sorts of different combinations of what I've
just
> described.  According to:
>
> http://www.the-genus-lilium.com/lancifolium.htm
>
> there are at least 3 known varieties of Lilium lancifolium besides the
strict
> species.
> L.l. var. flaviflorum: flowers lemmon-yellow, diploid
> L.l. var. plenescens (Syn. L. tigrinum flore pleno): smaller variety with
> double flowers
> L.l. var. splendens: in all parts larger and more robust
>
> So I'm pretty sure your Tiger Lily is a variety of the species, not a
hybrid
> (as I found no indication anywhere of another parent) but it is often
marketed
> as a hybrid- probably because the catalogs figure their customers may not
> understand the term "variety".
> The name should be Lilium lancifolium var. splendens.
>
> The Tiger Lily was used for a lot hybridization, especially the
'Midcentury
> Hybrids'.  One well-known Mid-C Hybrid is 'Enchantment'.  Fantastic,
vigorous,
> floriferous Asiatic Hybrid Lily.
>
> Still, I'm working off the internet.  I'd like to recheck this with my
> references when I get home.  It's possible taxonomists made changes on
this
> since the internet info I was able to find was researched and/or
published.
>
> Perhaps none of this matters to you.  You didn't ask; I did.  so I guess
I'm
> just answering my own question and simply sharing the results with anyone
> interested.  I'd also like to know if anyone else on the list knows more
about
> this lily and its name and whether I got it right.
>
> Kitty
>
> > Kitty, the tiger lily was marked Lilium tigrinum splendens.  Maybe it
isn't
> > a hybrid after all.
> > Sure is pretty, though, if you can keep the pollen off your clothes when
> > you pass by!
> > Mardi
> > Iowa z4b
> >
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