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Lilium arboricola

Lilium arboricola is an epiphytic lily from the mountains of northern Myanmar and Vietnam, growing on tree branches with green flowers and orange-red anthers. It is rarely cultivated and very hard to keep alive, so it is mainly of interest to specialist collectors and botanists.

Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the roots moist but never soggy, and let the top layer dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
A loose, airy mix of bark, sphagnum moss and perlite suited to epiphytes.
Temperature
15–25 °C; protect below 8 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
N. Myanmar, N. Vietnam
Climate
temperate

About

Lilium arboricola is an epiphytic lily species with green flowers, and orange-red anthers. It was first botanically described by Francis Kingdon-Ward and his assistants Chit Ko Ko and Tha Hla after a collection in the Shan region of Myanmar in 1953. Specimens from this collection flowered once in cultivation in Great Britain and were then lost. It was thought that it had been rediscovered in Lao Cai, Vietnam, in 2006, and introduced thence to Britain and Canada, but this turned out to be a new species (Lilium eupetes)

Other Lilium plants

Albanian Lily · Lovable lily · Gold Rayed Lily · Baker's Lily · Bolander's lily · Lilium bosniacum · Lilium brownii var. viridulum · Chinese Lily · Orange lily · Canada lily · Madonna lily · Lilium carniolicum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lilium arboricola by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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