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Siberian Lily

Lilium pensylvanicum

Also called Candlestick Lily

Siberian Lily
Photo: Нацку, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Liliaceae (Lily family)
Grows as
Bulb
Native range
Siberia to N. China and N. & NC. Japan
Climate
temperate

About

Lilium pensylvanicum is an Asian plant species of the family Liliaceae. Sometimes called the Siberian lily, it is native to a cold climate and needs frost in the winter. It is found in the wild form in Siberia, the Russian Far East, Mongolia, northeast China, Korea and Hokkaidō.

The Latin name is misleading due to an error by the botanist John Bellenden Ker.

How to grow it

Lilium pensylvanicum is very undemanding and is easily cultivated. It is sensitive only in relation to drought. Thus the plant is popular in European and American gardens.

Where it grows

Lilium pensylvanicum is abundant in the wild form in the Notsuke Peninsula. Near the city of Betsukai, during July, in the "gardens of the flock of gruyas" there may be seen many photographers looking for the best snapshots of the flowering of the ezosukashiyuri, as this species is known in Japanese. The city Koshimizu, on the island of Hokkaidō, is known as the city of the ezosukashiyuri flowers. In the Ainu language, the flowers are called masarorunpe and that is also the traditional Ainu oil lamp made from a large mussel shell and supported on a three-forked stick.

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 pensylvanicum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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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