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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 ...
Lilium bulbiferum, common names orange lily, [2] fire lily, Jimmy's Bane, tiger lily and St. John's Lily, is a herbaceous European lily with underground bulbs, belonging to the Liliaceae. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The Latin name bulbiferum of this species, meaning "bearing bulbs", refers to the secondary bulbs on the stem of the nominal subspecies.
Lilium columbianum is a perennial herb [7] that grows up to 1.2 metres (3.9 ft) tall, and bears from few to numerous orange flowers with darker spots. The tepals are 3 to 6 cm long and the flowers are lightly scented.
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.
A lily bulb produces new green growth as the weather warms in the spring and depending on the variety and hardiness zone, blooms emerge in late spring or summer. Once the plant has bloomed, the ...
'Hubei lily'), sometimes called tiger lily or Henry's lily, is a native lily of the mountains of central China (Provinces of Guizhou, Hubei, Jiangxi). The flowers are orange, spotted black, and unscented. The petals are recurving (bent backwards), and eventually resemble those of the more widespread Turk's-cap lily (though not when young). [1] [2]
Lilium superbum is a species of true lily native to the eastern and central regions of North America. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Common names include Turk's cap lily , [ 3 ] turban lily , [ 4 ] swamp lily , [ 6 ] lily royal , [ 6 ] or American tiger lily .
[26] [27] [82] The bulbs of Fritillaria roylei have been used as antipyretics and expectorants. [20] 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.