RE: tiger lilies/other lilies/virus

Paul, I purchased mine from VanBorgandien.  Hopefully they are clean.  This answers another question as well: I always wondered why I never saw them available for sale compared to other types of lilies.  

The collection I bought was a selection of yellow, white, salmon and orange.

-----Original Message-----
From: Meum71@aol.com [M*@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 9:43 AM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Re: tiger lilies/other lilies/virus


In a message dated 5/6/2002 10:46:19 AM Central Daylight Time, 
SSaxton@schwabe.com writes:


> 
> Is this still true?  If so, how far away do the tiger lilies need to be 
> from other types of lilies?  (I just bought a collection of tigers last 
> fall and planted them throughout my garden, so you can imagine my concern!) 
>  Thanks.
> 
> 

If you bought them from a nursery that knows what they are doing-they might 
be clean or they might have been raised from seed.

But if they were from an old collection from the past they could very well be 
infected.

The bulbs can be cleaned up in tissue culture- I would check with the place 
you purchased them from and ask if they are clean bulbs.

Also a number of different lily forms can be sold under the common name 
"tiger Lilly"

The problem plants are those that are normally orange with dark spots with 
flowers that face down ward,  Lillium lancifolium hybrid or L. tigrinum 
(invalid name)

The problem is that the bulbs are infected but do not die from the virus, but 
other plants once in contact with the virus die in a short time.  The 
infected bulbs have been around for a long time so are found at old home 
stead's and in the "wild" 
I have not seen Tiger lilies for sale.  For the most part people get them 
from their friends.

So this Lilly is the typhoid Mary of the Lilly world



Paul Henjum
Specialty Perennials
481 Reflection Road
Apple Valley. 
MN 55124

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