Canada lily
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The Canada lily , also Canadian water lily or yellow lily , ( Lilium canadense ) is a plant species from the genus of lilies ( Lilium ) in the section Pseudolirium .
description
The Canada lily reaches a stature height of 60 to 180 cm and is up to 25 cm wide. The bulbs are round and reach a diameter of about 4 cm; they are covered with white scales and form rhizomes .
The stem is hard, smooth and straight; the leaves are narrow and lanceolate, about 15 cm long and arranged in six to twelve wreaths of four to ten leaves. The leaf veins lie on the underside of the leaf and have tiny thorns .
The plant blooms in June and July with one or up to 20 flowers hanging down in a candelabra-shaped umbel . The flowers consist of six outwardly curved petals; the bend is never more than 90 °, i.e. never bent back. There are three crown- and three sepals , but look very similar. The color of the flowers varies from yellow to orange to red with dark brown spots. The anthers are magenta, the pollen rust-brown, the pistil is the same color as the petals. The individual flowers reach a diameter of 75 to 150 mm.
The seeds ripen from August to September in upright seed pods measuring 2.5 to 5 cm. They germinate delayed- hypogeic after a warm-cold-warm cycle (autumn-winter-spring), in which each period has to be about two months long. It is very slow-growing, it takes up to seven years from seed to flowering.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 24.
distribution
The plant is distributed from Ontario , Québec , and Nova Scotia to the south of New England , eastern Maryland and Pennsylvania . Few specimens are found in the mountains of South Carolina , northern Florida , Alabama, and southern Indiana .
The Canada lily needs a moist soil, preferably wet meadows or damp places on the edges of forests.
use
The Canada lily onion is very tasty when cooked. Because the plant is relatively common in Canada, there are plenty of hikers looking for the plants and digging up the bulbs to cook them. The onions are sweeter than those of other types of lily due to their higher sugar content and can also be cooked into a kind of molasses .
The plant has medicinal uses. A tea made from the onions has a stomach-tonic effect and helps with menstrual cramps and diarrhea. A porridge pack made from the onions can be applied to snake bites.
The plant is relatively easy to cultivate and is common in American gardens.
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literature
- Mark W. Skinner: Lilium canadense . In: Flora of North America . tape 26 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-515208-1 , pp. 196 ( online [accessed February 2, 2009]).
Individual evidence
Web links
- Markus Hohenegger: Lilium canadense. In: The Genus Lilium. Retrieved February 2, 2010 .