Lilium davidii

Neil Jordan via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 16:59:34 PDT
Having grown Lilium davidii in various forms for over 30 years and produced
many hybrids from it, I can assure you that there is no perfume from this
species.
Eddie must have had a typo.

Neil Jordan, Tasmania

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Subject: [pbs] Lilium davidii

Does anyone grow Lilium davidii? Mine is blooming for the first time, from
seed, and Eddie McCrae's lily book claims it's fragrant while Lilies of the
World did not, at least at first glance, make mention of fragrance. I had to
bring out a new hand lens, a triplet 10x made in Bosnia of all places, to
determine that the description really matched. I suspect mine is variety
unicolor, because it is a single pale orange color with not many spots
compared to the other davidiis. I've had ssp. willmottiae for years and
davidii is definitely shorter.

 

But, I really wanted fragrance, and I don't smell any. If anyone else is
growing this, I'd be curious to know about the fragrance or perhaps I just
can't smell it.

 

Robin Hansen

In cloudy, misty Coquille OR 

Where no, it's not hot.

 

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