Re: tiger lilies/other lilies/virus
- Subject: Re: tiger lilies/other lilies/virus
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 13:48:49 EDT
In a message dated 5/6/02 12:44:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Meum71@aol.com
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.>>>>
Lilium lancifolium does not set seed. It is an ancient food crop in China.
It is one of the leaf axil forming lilies. It must be some equally ancient
hybrid -no seed.
<<<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.>>>>
This is interesting as I have not noticed if lancifolium is increased by
tissue culture. Many of the plants sold in this country are of Dutch origin.
Unfortunately, many packaged plants sold in chain stores that are of Dutch
origin have cultural problems. It may have to do with shipping and handling.
Cannas are often rotted.
<<<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)>>>>>
They grow around my town along side the Asiatic 'Connecticut Yankee", an old
hybrid. So this is safe. Yankee is just about as prolific. Both are so
easy to grow that you actually do not need to grow them. They appear all
over the gardens and escape the rodents by siting themselves in many
different places.
<<<<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.>>>>
If you look at the catalogs of last fall and some this spring, you will see
Tiger lilies for sale in quantity. Agreed, they did not used to be sold by
bulb dealers but are sold now. The so-called improved form is much
advertised. The best dealers are handling Lilium lancifolium.
If you do not have Lilium lancifolium in your gardens now, it would be wise
to not add them if you plan on purchasing lilies in the future. If you are
already stuck with millions of them, Asiatics are your best bet.
<<<So this Lilly is the typhoid Mary of the Lilly world >>>>
For the large, fragrant and pink/red/white Orientals this, in my experience
is true.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
