Lilium pensylvanicum
Lilium pensylvanicum
Lilium pensylvanicum ( long time under the name L. dauricum ) is a species of the genus Lilium (Lilium ) in the Dauricum section.
Description
Lilium pensylvanicum reaches a height of 30 to 70 cm wide and up to 25 cm. The stem is hard, smooth and straight, the leaves linear to lanceolate, 4-5 cm long and 3-4 mm wide. They are annoying, papillose on the edge, rarely white woolly hairs distributed over the stem with an additional whorl on the stem tip. The plant flowers in June and July with one to six upright, cup -shaped flowers. The flowers consist of six after drooping petals. There are three Kron and three sepals, but they look very similar. The color of the flowers is of a penetrating red, becoming darker towards the base with purple dots on the outside white woolly, sometimes sticky. The nectaries are purple papillose, the stamens together eigend, the filaments yellow and dark pollen. They reach a diameter of 15 mm to 23 mm. The seeds ripen from August to September. The onion is round with a diameter of about 2 cm. It is covered with white broad lanceolate scales.
Dissemination
Lilium pensylvanicum lives in a cold climate and needs frost in winter. It is native to Siberia, Kamchatka, Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, the northwestern Mongolia, China, Korea, and Hokkaidō. The Latin name is so misleading.
Lilium is pensylvanicum community flower Koshimizu and Tomari on Hokkaidō.
Propagation
The seeds of Lilium pensylvanicum germinates delayed - hypogeous after a hot-cold - hot cycle (autumn - winter-spring ) in which each period is about two months.
Cultivation
Lilium pensylvanicum is very undemanding and can cultivate simple, it is only sensitive to drought. When breeding, they can also be found in European and American gardens.