Lilium maculatum

Lilium maculatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Lilium
Species: L. maculatum
Binomial name
Lilium maculatum
Thunb.
Synonyms[1]
Garden varieties[2]

Lilium maculatum (Japanese: スカシユリ(透百合), Sukashiyuri) is a plant in the lily family native to the central and northern regions of Japan, widely cultivated as an ornamental.[1][3][4][5]

It is a stem rooting lily, growing 20 to 60 centimeters high. It bears a number of orange flowers with red-brown spots.

Varieties[1]


formerly included[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Plate 39 of Henry John Elwes (1880) A monograph of the genus Lilium ... illustrated [with coloured plates] by W.H. Fitch, London: Taylor & Francis OCLC: 560210827.
  3. ↑ Thunberg, Carl Peter 1794. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2: 334 description in Latin
  4. ↑ Tropicos, Lilium maculatum Thunb.
  5. ↑ Pacific Bulb Society, Lilium Dauricum Section color photos of several species including numerous color photos of Lilium maculatum
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