RE: Lemon Lily name
Kitty,
I haven'y been keeping up with garden chat as I've been working on a daylily
project almost non-stop. Possibly someone has answered your post already,
but what I could find is that the Lemon Lily is mentioned in botanical
literature as early a 1570 under the name Asphodelus luteus liliflorus. In
1762, it received the name Hemerocallis flava by Linnaeus. There are a few
different clones circulating with this name.
I got this information from Hemerocallis The Daylily by R.W. Munson, Jr..
He was a well known hybridizer. The species daylilies are a group unto
themselves! Some people are really into them. I have a few, but not H.
flava.
Chris Petersen
Northport, Long Island, New York
Zone 7a (Average min temp 50 - 00)
chris@widom-assoc.com
My garden: http://photos.yahoo.com/chrispnpt
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Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 1:26 PM
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Subject: [CHAT] Lemon Lily name
I need to make a seed packet label for Lemon Lily. I had done it for
Lilium parryi, but now they tell me the seed is from Hemerocallis
lilio-asphodelus. OK, but I'm getting mixed signals on the intenet on
the name. Some sites mention that this Hem and H. flava both use the
name while other say that H.l-a is a synonym for H. flava. Does anyone
know if these are the same plant? I'm sort of a stickler for getting the
name right.
Kitty
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