Thursday 4 December 2014

CHRISTMAS LILIES

Lilium candidum (popularly known as the Madonna Lily) is a plant in the genus Lilium, one of the true lilies. It is native to the Balkans and West Asia. It forms bulbs at ground level, and unlike other lilies, has a basal rosette of leaves through the winter, which die back in summer. A leafy flower stem, typically up to 1.2 metres high, sometimes up to 2 metres high, emerges in late spring and bears fragrant flowers in summer. Flowers are white, flushed yellow at the base.

It has long been cultivated, but is susceptible to virus diseases of lilies, and to Botrytis fungus. One possible way to avoid problems with viruses is to grow plants raised from seed. This can be a spectacular garden plant, especially if mass planted.

This post is part of the Floral Friday Fotos meme.



6 comments:

  1. Very nice lilies!They smell nice, am I right?

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  2. We call it here Easter Lilies and I planted quite a few of it last year. And yes it smells great!

    Mary, MI

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  3. They look strangely life Easter Lilies. Tom The Backroads Traveller

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  4. Hi Tom, these are Easter Lilies, which in the Southern Hemisphere bloom during Advent - hence Christmas lilies!

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  5. The last one is perfect.
    best regards.

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