Re: Lilium regale by Nick Turland
- Subject: Re: Lilium regale by Nick Turland
- From: O* W*
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:04:14 +1200
Lilim regale is known as Xmas Lily in New Zealand. It grows like a weed
and self seeds in my brother's Christchurch garden which has a
Mediterranean type climate.
Diane Whitehead wrote:
>
> reposted for Nick Turland by Diane Whitehead
> ==============================
>
> I've seen Lilium regale grown often in Crete, and it seems to grow
> healthily, with large, trumpet-shaped, fragrant, white flowers. Also the
> Madonna lily, L. candidum, does well. I guess many lilies come from summer
> rainfall areas and don't take too kindly to the summer drought of medit
> climates? Lilium regale is from Sichuan province, China, by the way. If
> anyone's really into to lilies, check out the on-line Flora of China account
> of them (55 of the approx. 115 species known) at:
>
> http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/Flora/flora.pl?FLORA_ID=11746&RANK_ID=125
>
> type in "Lilium" into the search box (or whatever else takes your fancy). At
> the moment there are no illustrations, but line drawings will be added later
> this year, hopefully.
>
> Nick
>
> Nick Turland
> Flora of China Project, Missouri Botanical Garden,
> P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, U.S.A.
> E-mail: Nicholas.Turland@mobot.org
> Phone: +1 314 577 0269 Fax: +1 314 577 9438
> MBG web: http://www.mobot.org
> FOC web: http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/
> Flora of Crete Supplement:
> http://www.marengo.supanet.com/text/fcs.htm
