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Lily Yu Chu-Monteverde [1] (19 August 1938 – 4 August 2024), known as Mother Lily and professionally credited as Lily Yu Monteverde, was a Chinese Filipino film producer and businesswoman. Monteverde was one of the first Filipina movie producers who produced many local blockbuster films under different genres in the 1970s and 1980s.
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 .
He achieved notability in the London gay scene during the 1980s with his drag persona Lily Savage, through which he gained wider popularity in the 1990s. O'Grady subsequently dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, including The Paul O'Grady Show .
Turk's cap is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Lilium martagon , a lily species native to a wide area from central Europe east to Mongolia and Korea Lilium michauxii , a lily species native to southeastern North America
The death cap is named in Latin as such in the correspondence between the English physician Thomas Browne and Christopher Merrett. [13] Also, it was described by French botanist Sébastien Vaillant in 1727, who gave a succinct phrase name "Fungus phalloides, annulatus, sordide virescens, et patulus"—a recognizable name for the fungus today. [14]
The name Turk's cap lily, also applied to a number of other species, comes from the characteristic reflexed shape of the petals. [15] The specific epithet martagon is of uncertain origin. [ 16 ] It has been suggested by one scholar (J.W. Redhouse (1892), that the word is of Ottoman Turkish origin, as mārtağān - a special kind of turban ...
Lilium pyrenaicum (Pyrenean lily, [1] yellow Turk's-cap lily, yellow martagon lily) is native to montane regions, mainly the Pyrenees, from Spain and eastwards, with the range extending into the Caucasus. It grows up to 1.3 m high.
Lilium hansonii, known as Hanson's lily [3] and Japanese turk's-cap lily, [4] is an East Asian species of plants in the lily family. [2] [5] [6] It is native to Korea, Japan, and to Jilin Province in northeastern China, as well as being widely cultivated as an ornamental. [7] Lilium hansonii is a vigorous early–flowering stem–rooting true lily.