Lilium pensylvanicum

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Lilium pensylvanicum
Lilium pensylvanicum

Lilium pensylvanicum

Systematics
Monocots
Order : Lily-like (Liliales)
Family : Lily family (Liliaceae)
Subfamily : Lilioideae
Genre : Lilies ( Lilium )
Type : Lilium pensylvanicum
Scientific name
Lilium pensylvanicum
Ker Gawl.

Lilium pensylvanicum (long under the name L. dauricum ) is a species from the genus of lilies ( Lilium ) in the Dauricum section .

description

Lilium pensylvanicum reaches a height of 30 to 70 cm and is up to 25 cm wide. The stem is hard, smooth and straight, the leaves linear to lanceolate , 4 to 5 cm long and 3 to 4 mm wide. They are annoying, at the edge papillose , rarely hairy white woolly, spread over the stems with an additional whorls on the stem tip. The plant blooms in June and July with one to six upright, cup-shaped flowers. The flowers consist of six petals bent backwards. There are three crown- and three sepals , but look very similar. The color of the flowers is a penetrating red, darkening towards the base with purple dots, on the outside white woolly, sometimes sticky. The nectaries are purple papillos, the stamens inclined, the filaments yellow and the pollen dark red. They reach a diameter of 15 mm up to 23 mm. The seeds ripen from August to September. The onion is round with a diameter of about 2 cm. It consists of white, broad, lancet-shaped scales.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 24.

distribution

Lilium pensylvanicum lives in a cold climate and needs frost in winter. It is native to Siberia , Kamchatka , Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands , northwestern Mongolia , China , Korea and Hokkaidō . The Latin name is misleading.

Lilium pensylvanicum is the community flower of Koshimizu and Tomari on Hokkaidō.

Multiplication

The seeds of Lilium pensylvanicum germinate delayed- hypogeic after a warm-cold-warm cycle (autumn-winter-spring), in which each period is about two months long.

cultivation

Lilium pensylvanicum is very undemanding and easy to cultivate, it is only sensitive to drought. It can also be found as a cultivation in European and American gardens.

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literature

  • AL Jussieu: Lilium pensylvanicum . In: Tatyana Shulkina (ed.): Ornamental Plants From Russia And Adjacent States Of The Former Soviet Union . Rostok Publishing House, 2005, ISBN 978-5-94668-032-5 ( online [accessed February 3, 2009]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tropicos. [1]

Web links

Commons : Lilium pensylvanicum  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
  • Markus Hohenegger: Lilium dauricum. In: The Genus Lilium. Retrieved February 3, 2010 .