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Lily bulbs are starchy and edible as root vegetables, though bulbs of some species may be too bitter to eat. [70] Lilium brownii var. viridulum, known as 百合 (pak hop; pinyin: bǎi hé; Cantonese Yale: baak hap; lit. 'hundred united'), is one of the most prominent edible lilies in China. Its bulbs are large in size and not bitter.
L. brownii var. brownii: leaves lanceolate to linear, known as "wild lily" (野百合) in China. Lilium brownii var. chloraster (Baker) Baker; L. brownii var. viridulum: leaves oblanceolate to obovate, known as "(common) lily" (百合) in China. This variety is often cultivated for its edible bulbs.
Lilium bulbs, particularly Lanzhou lily (Lilium davidii) [69] are used as food in China and other parts of Asia. [83] During World War II, starvation conditions in the Netherlands (Hongerwinter, hunger winter 1944) led to using Tulipa bulbs as food. Calochortus bulbs were eaten by Native Americans and by the Mormon settlers in Utah during
Narcissus tazetta (paperwhite, bunch-flowered narcissus, bunch-flowered daffodil, [1] Chinese sacred lily, cream narcissus, joss flower, polyanthus narcissus) is a perennial ornamental plant that grows from a bulb.
Hemerocallis fulva, the orange day-lily, [3] tawny daylily, corn lily, tiger daylily, fulvous daylily, ditch lily or Fourth of July lily (also railroad daylily, roadside daylily, outhouse lily, track lily, and wash-house lily), [citation needed] is a species of daylily native to Asia.
Lilium lancifolium (syn. L. tigrinum) is an Asian species of lily, native to China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East. [1] It is widely planted as an ornamental because of its showy orange-and-black flowers, and sporadically occurs as a garden escapee in North America, particularly the eastern United States including New England, [2] and has made incursions into some southern states such ...