Cardiocrinum giganteum
| giant Himalayan lily | |
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| Cardiocrinum giganteum in Sichuan | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Liliales |
| Family: | Liliaceae |
| Subfamily: | Lilioideae |
| Genus: | Cardiocrinum |
| Species: | C. giganteum |
| Binomial name | |
| Cardiocrinum giganteum (Wall.) Makino[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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1880 illustration [3]
Cardiocrinum giganteum, the giant Himalayan lily, is the largest species of any of the lily plants, growing up to 3.5 metres high. It is found in the Himalayas, China and Myanmar (Burma).[2]
- Varieties
Two varieties are recognized[4][2]
- C. giganteum var. giganteum - up to 3 metres tall, the outer part of the flower greenish and the inside streaked with purple - Tibet, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar, Nepal, Sikkim
- C. giganteum var. yunnanense - 1-2 metres tall, the outer part of the flower white and the inside streaked with purplish red - Myanmar, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
A plant of Cardiocrinum giganteum var. yunnanense growing at Jardin Jungle Karlostachys in France
History of cultivation
The plant was first described scientifically in 1824 by Nathaniel Wallich.[5] The species was introduced into commercial production (as Lilium giganteum) in Britain in the 1850s. A bulb grown from seed collected by Major Madden flowered in Edinburgh in July 1852, while those collected by Thomas Lobb were first exhibited in flower in May 1853.[6]
References
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- ↑ Cardiocrinum giganteum on Plants For A Future
- 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Henry John Elwes: A monograph of the genus Lilium; illustrated by W.H. Fitch. Taylor and Francis, London 1880
- ↑ Xinqi Chen, Prof. Song-Yun Liang, Jie-mei Xu, David E. Boufford, Michael G. Gilbert, Rudolf V. Kamelin, Shoichi Kawano, Tetsuo Koyama, Elena V. Mordak, Junko Noguchi, Victor G. Soukup, Hiroshi Takahashi, Kamilla G. Tamanian, Minoru N. Tamura and Nicholas J. Turland. "Flora of China".
|chapter=ignored (help) - ↑ Wallich, Nathaniel. 1824. Tentamen Florae Napalensis Illustratae 1: 21–23, pl. 12–13., as Lilium giganteum
- ↑ James H. Veitch (1906). Hortus Veitchii. p. 448.
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