Tiger Lily

Tiger Lily


Tiger Lily


Tiger Lily


Tiger Lily


The Tiger Lily, bears large, fiery orange flowers covered by spots.The name ‘tiger’ probably refers to the spots on the petals.

The flowers of this perennial can grow up to three inches in width.The Tiger Lily is also known as the ‘Ditch Lily’ as it is found in and around ditches in large parts of America.

Kingdom

Plantae

Division

Magnoliophyta

CLass

Liliopsida

Subclass

Liliidae

Order

Liliales

Family

Liliaceae

Genus

Lilium

The Tiger Lily has a strong, sweet and distinctively lily smell. Besides producing a stunning spectacle, most parts of this plant are edible. There are two varieties of the Tiger Lily:

• The Oriental Variety: Propagates through bulbs that form at leaf axils.
• The Common Wildflower Variety: Propagates by tuberous roots.

The Tiger Lily is known by a host of different names in different parts of the world. Some of the synonyms are: Lilium tigrinum, Devil Lily, Kentan, Lilium lancifolium, Leopard Lily, Pine Lily, Lilium catesbaei, Columbia lily, Oregon Lily, Western Wood Lily, Chalice-Cup Lily, Western Red Lily, etc.

Facts About The Tiger Lily

• Tiger Lily was first described by the famous Swedish botanist Carl von Linne (Linnaeus) in 1753.
• The Tiger Lily has significant medicinal use. A tincture is made from the fresh plant and has proved of great value in uterine-neuralgia, congestion and irritation, also in the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.
• Tiger Lily flower essence helps in suppressing aggressive tendencies in individuals and helps in holistic healing.
• Tiger Lily can often act as a carrier of viral diseases and so becomes a vector infecting other species. It is therefore better to grow this species well away from your other lilies
• Tiger Lily has some toxic effects on cats. It can produce vomiting, in appetence, lethargy, kidney failure, and even death.
• Tiger Lily has edible flower buds apart from edible roots and shoots. These can often have a bitter flavor. When baked, lily bulbs taste rather like potatoes.
• The best place to find dried Tiger Lily buds is in an Asian market. Look for soft buds, and store well in a cool, dry place. Tiger Lily buds must be soaked in warm water for about 30 minutes to soften them before adding them to dishes. The tough stem attached to them should be removed. Besides adding to Chinese dishes, they can enhance the flavor of egg dishes and salads.
• There is an old legend from Asia about the Tiger Lily. A Korean hermit helped a wounded tiger by removing an arrow from its body. The tiger asked the hermit to use his powers to perpetuate their friendship after his death. The hermit agreed and when the tiger died, his body became a tiger lily. Eventually the hermit drowned and his body was washed away. The Tiger Lily spread everywhere searching for its friend.
• There is a superstition that smelling Tiger Lily will give you freckles.
• The Tiger Lily stands for wealth and prosperity.
• The Tiger Lily, have six stamens (composed of anthers and filaments), one pistil (composed of the stigma, style and ovary), a long style, and a three-lobed stigma.

Orange Lily/Fire Lily

Orange Lily


Orange Lily


Orange Lily


Orange Lily


Orange Lily/ Fire Lily Information
ulb growing to 1.2m. It is hardy to zone 7. It is in flower from June to July, and the seeds ripen from August to September. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees. We rate it 3 out of 5 for usefulness.

The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and requires well-drained soil. The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. It requires moist soil.

Habitats and Possible Locations

Woodland, Sunny Edge, Dappled Shade.

Edible Uses

Root.

Bulb - cooked. Sweet and mealy[177], they make very fair eating and can be used as a potato substitute[2].

Medicinal Uses

Disclaimer

None known

Other Uses

None known

Cultivation details

Prefers an open free-draining humus-rich loamy soil with its roots in the shade and its head in the sun[200]. Succeeds in ordinary garden soil[1, 143] and in calcareous soils[90, 200]. Prefers summer shade[200].

Stem rooting, the bulbs should be planted 15cm deep[43, 143, 200]. Early to mid autumn is the best time to plant out the bulbs in cool temperate areas, in warmer areas they can be planted out as late as late autumn[200].

This is one of the easiest lilies to grow[47], it is cultivated for its edible bulb in Japan[2].

The plant should be protected against slugs in early spring. If the shoot tip is eaten out the bulb will not grow in that year and will lose vigour[200].

The typical form of this species forms bulbils on its stems[200]. The sub-species L. bulbiferum croceum does not normally produce bulbils[188].

Propagation

Seed - delayed hypogeal germination[130]. Best sown as soon as ripe in a cold frame, it should germinate in spring[143]. Stored seed will require a warm/cold/warm cycle of stratification, each period being about 2 months long[163]. Grow on in cool shady conditions. Great care should be taken in pricking out the young seedlings, many people leave them in the seed pot until they die down at the end of their second years growth. This necessitates sowing the seed thinly and using a reasonably fertile sowing medium. The plants will also require regular feeding when in growth. Divide the young bulbs when they are dormant, putting 2 - 3 in each pot, and grow them on for at least another year before planting them out into their permanent positions when the plants are dormant[K].

Division with care in the autumn once the leaves have died down. Replant immediately[200].

Bulbils - gather in late summer when they start to fall off the stems and pot up immediately. Grow on in a greenhouse until large enough to go outside[163].

Bulb scales can be removed from the bulbs in early autumn. If they are kept in a warm dark place in a bag of moist peat, they will produce bulblets. These bulblets can be potted up and grown on in the greenhouse until they are large enough to plant out[200].

White Lily

White Lily


White Lily



White Lily


White Lily


White Lily Information

Lilium candidum L. belongs to the Liliaceae family. It grows throughout Mediterranean regions and western Asia. It probably originated in Persia and Syria. Although often cultivated as a garden plant, it can be found spontaneously growing in the fields around gardens and country houses.

White lily is a perennial plant growing up to 60-150 cm in height. It’s a bulb species with large scaly white bulbs, about 1 m tall stalks, and linear leaves; some leaves attached to the base of the stalk, spreading around it, other leaves erect, lanceolate, with slightly dentate margins.

Flowers are rather large and strikingly white. Each flower has six slightly curved petals and six stamens with white filaments and long yellow anthers.

The strongly aromatic white lilies bloom from May onwards. Seeds can be harvested from August to September. Bulbs are odorless, with a bitter and mucilaginous taste. Bulbs are harvested in August and can be used fresh or dried. Bulbs and flowers are the parts of the white lily plant that are used for therapeutic purposes.

The essential oil, extracted from flowers (0,3%), is rich in vanillin (up to 2,5%), p- hydroxy-m-methoxytoluene (up to 50%), p-cresol, linalol, terpineol, phenylethyl alcohol and its esters, with acetic, palmitic, benzoic, propionic and cinnamic acids. Flowers also contain flavonoids (kaempherol and its derivatives), lilaline, jatrophine and carotenoids.

Bulbs contain starch (about 14%), soluble polysaccharides (glucomannan)4, phytosterols, pyrrolic alkaloids, amino acids, such as g-methylene glutamic acid, and tannins. 2. d- methylene glutamic acid can be found in the bulb scales. By blooming time, bulbs and roots contain abundant amounts of the later acid, together with its lactone derivative - a-methylene-butyrolactone - and mineral salts, noticeably boron. Novel saponins of the spirostanol and furostanol types have been identified in Lilium candidum bulbs.

Calla Lily

Calla Lily


Calla Lily


Calla Lily


Calla Lily


Calla Lily Information

The calla lily is a popular wedding favorite, and there is little doubt as to why. With it's beautiful shape and fluted cup flower, the calla lily looks much like a wedding champagne glass. The proper name for a calla lily is Zantedeschia.

Most people are familiar with white calla lilies but the calla lily also comes in several bright colors as well. Their leaves are mostly lance or heart shaped and are a lovely dark green. There are a few sub-species that have been developed through hybridization that have spotted leaves.

Calla lilies have rhizomes that are not cold hardy. This means that while it can be grown in the average garden, it must be dug up each fall and stored in a relatively warm location. To store the rhizomes of the calla lily, simply dig up the plant in late fall, knock as much dirt off them as possible (but do not wash them) and lay them out on some newspaper to dry out for a few days. Then pack the rhizomes in newspaper in a box. Place the box in a cool (but not cold) dry place. Replant the rhizomes the next spring.

Calla lilies prefer moist soil and some species are even marginal aquatics. The calla lily grows best in humus-rich moist soil in full sun.

Propagating calla lilies is quite simple. Divide the rhizomes in the spring and replant. That's it. It's just that easy.

While calla lilies are very lovely, they are very susceptible to several diseases, including rhizome rot, bacterial soft rot, gray mold and several viral diseases. If you plan on growing the calla lily, make sure you keep a close eye on the plant and treat at the first sign of disease.

But don't let its susceptibility scare you off. Calla lilies are a wonderful addition to any garden, especially the particularly frustrating soggy garden. Where other plants will wither due to too much standing water, the calla lily will grow, thrive and be quite happy.