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Scientific Name: | Lilium cvs. (Oriental) |
Common Name: | Oriental hybrid lily |
Family Name: | Liliaceae |
Origin: | Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
Plant Type: | Flowering cut plant, Flowering pot plant, Herbaceous perennial |
Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.1 - 0.3m (height x width) |
Habit: | Stiffly upright |
Form: | Columnar |
Texture: | Medium - coarse |
Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Floristry, Fragrance, Indoor plant |
Exposure: | Full sun |
Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Parallel venation, Lustrous, Lanceolate, Entire |
Flowers: | Raceme, White, Orange, Pink, Red, Dark-red, Jun-Jul-Aug |
Fruit: | Capsule, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown, Sep-Oct |
Key ID Features: | |
Compared to Asiatic lilies, Oriental lilies tend to have larger, wider (more elliptical) leaves and larger but fewer flowers (in whites pinks, reds, or rarely yellow) that are strongly scented; 6 tepals. |