Re: More on medit lilies
- Subject: Re: More on medit lilies
- From: J* S*
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:59:37 -0700 (PDT)
All:
I was just reading my copy of "Flowering Plants of the
Santa Monica Mountains" and I noticed an entry for
Lilium humboldtianum ocellatum. Even very southern
California has its native lilies!
Two special notes form the book:
"common along shaded streams away from the coast" [but
probably not too far away].
"A specimen was once found that had 50 buds and
blossoms, 20 of which were open all at the same time."
Where are you breeders?!
Joe
--- Nicholas Turland <Nicholas.Turland@mobot.org>
wrote:
> Thinking more about medit-climate lilies, in the
> Greek fir/black pine
> forests of the Peloponnese, in southern Greece,
> grows Lilium chalcedonicum.
> It grows to about 2 feet/60 cm tall and has
> orange-red flowers. These
> forests definitely have a mediterranean climate,
> although up there in the
> mountains it's a little cooler and moister than by
> the sea.
>
> Also, on the Greece-Bulgaria border, grows the
> endemic, yellow-flowered
> Lilium rhodopeum. This area is not really very
> mediterranean, though, and is
> much more like central Europe in climate and
> vegetation (even though it's
> only about 150 miles from the sea).
>
> On several mountains in northern Greece I've seen
> Lilium martagon, the
> turk's-cap lily, which is dark red flowered. Again,
> though, this is rather
> borderline mediterranean. This species is scattered
> all over central and
> southern Europe too.
>
> At least Lilium chalcedonicum ought to do well in
> Californian and other
> medit region gardens, and its a beautiful plant too!
>
> Nick
>
>
> Nick Turland, in 97-degree, 97% humidity,
> not-in-the-least-mediterranean St.
> Louis, MO.
>
>
>
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger
http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
