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Farges's Lily

Lilium fargesii

Farges's Lily
Photo: John Lykkegaard, CC BY-SA 2.5

Farges's Lily is a small, Turk's cap lily from the mountains of central and western China, growing 15 to 20 cm tall with fragrant greenish-white, brown-spotted flowers in late summer. It needs cool, moist conditions with a bulb planted deeply in well-drained soil.

Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth and let it dry slightly after flowering.
Soil
Humus-rich, free-draining, slightly acidic to neutral soil, such as leaf mould mixed with grit.
Temperature
10 to 22 °C; hardy to about -15 °C when dormant
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. China
Climate
temperate

About

Lilium fargesii is a Chinese species of plants in the lily family native to Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China.

Lilium fargesii occurs naturally on the edge of woods in mountains at elevations of 1500–1800 meters. The plant grows 6–8 inches (15–20 cm) tall with a slim stem, long narrow leaves and surmounted by a raceme of 1–6 flowers. The flowers are Turk's cap in shape with broad reflexed petals of a greenish–white. The petals may be darker green at the edges but are spotted and marked all over with chestnut–brown dots. The flowers are fragrant. The bulb of Lilium fargesii is comparatively small at ¾ inch (1.5 cm) diameter. This lily flowers late in the summer from the end of July to August or September.

Other Lilium plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lilium fargesii 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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