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Lilium lancifolium
Also called Devil Lily, Easter Lily, Kentan, Martagon, Lance Leaved Tiger Lily
Tiger lily is a bulbous perennial from temperate Asia, grown for its showy orange-and-black flowers and bulbs that produce bulbils in the leaf axils. It is hardy and easy outdoors, with well-drained soil and full sun to part shade being the key.
Lilium lancifolium (syn. L. tigrinum) is an Asian species of lily, native to China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East. It is widely planted as an ornamental because of its showy orange-and-black flowers, and sporadically occurs as a garden escapee in North America, particularly the eastern United States including New England, and has made incursions into some southern states such as Georgia.
It has the English name tiger lily, but that name has been applied to other species as well.
A case study of the successful treatment of a cat that ingested this particular species was published in 2007.
It is cultivated and wild foraged in Asia for its edible bulbs. The cultivar 'Splendens' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. In Taiwan, both the flower and bulbs are used as food, as are the other related species: L. brownii var. viridulum, L. pumilum and L. candidum.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lilium lancifolium 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.
