Lilium lancifolium

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Template:Short description Template:Speciesbox

Script error: No such module "For".

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 as Georgia.[3]

It has the English name tiger lily, but that name has been applied to other species as well.

File:Lilium tigrinum 005.jpg
Lilium lancifolium, Batiscan, Quebec, Canada

Description

File:Lilium lancifolium bulbils2.jpg
Leaf axil bulbils with developing roots in late summer

Like other true lilies, the flowers are borne on upright stems that are Template:Convert tall and bear lanceolate leaves Template:Convert long and Template:Convert broad. L. lancifolium produces aerial bulblets, known as bulbils, in the leaf axils.[4] These bulbils are uncommon in Lilium species and they produce new plants that are clones of the original plant.[2]

The flowers are odorless.[4] Each lasts a few days and if pollinated produce capsules with many thin seeds.[2]

Extrafloral nectaries on the species were first noted by Zimmerman 1932.[5]

Taxonomy

Varieties

File:Lilium lancifolium 'Flore Pleno' (Double Tiger Lily).jpg
Lilium lancifolium 'Flore Pleno' (double tiger lily)

The names of names considered as varieties at some time are: Template:Bulleted list

The Lilium tigrinum flore pleno, the double-flowered variety, had been exported out of Japan by William Bull since 1869.[6]

Names

Scientific names

Botanists for many years considered L. tigrinum (after Ker Gawler[7]) the correct scientific name until it was determined that older name L. lancifolium (after Thunberg[8]) refers to the same species, and the latter became the accepted name.[2]Template:Efn

Vernacular names

Its common name is tiger lily. Although this name is ambiguous across several species, it is correctly applied to this species alone.[2]

Cat toxicity

A case study of the successful treatment of a cat that ingested this particular species was published in 2007.[9]

Uses

It is cultivated and wild foraged in Asia for its edible bulbs.[10] The cultivar 'Splendens' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[11] In Taiwan, both the flower and bulbs are used as food, as are the other related species: L. brownii var. viridulum, L. pumilum and L. candidum.[12]

Notes

Template:Notelist

References

Template:Reflist

Bibliography

Template:Refbegin

  • Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".

Template:Refend

External links

Template:Sister project

Template:Taxonbar

  1. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named POWO_537628-1
  2. a b c d e Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named flora-of-northamerica-online
  3. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. a b Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named ohwi
  5. Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  6. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  7. Ker Gawler, J. G.; Bellenden, John (1809) "Lilium tigrinum, Tiger-spotted Chinese lily". Botanical Magazine 31: plate 1237ff.
  8. Thunberg, Carl Peter (1794), Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2: 333 Template:In lang
  9. Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
  10. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named dai-nihon-nokai
  11. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  12. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".