Lilies: Lilium formosanum and phillipinense, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
The stigma is all blue to my eye, a very soft almost greyish blue and it has a softly bumpy surface, not fuzzy but, gee I don't know how to describe it.

On cropping it down I can see a fine greenish/brown line down the middle of each lobe, and I thought there was a greenish hue visible in the pic around the back edges, which I had put down to reflection of the throat. It could be a greenish rim (at the back) but the whole stigma looks blue to me. That may change with age, but I won't see this one because I plastered it with gloriosoides pollen! The last 2 had opened 3 days earlier and I took more pollen off, then just used a whole anther to do it, the pollen was still full and fluffy, it's amazing how much came off. The anthers of philly are showing loose pollen today, perhaps I should take some of those for another cross next year!

The next one to open has much darker brown stripes on the pod, it's getting fat so shouldn't be long. The other two are only small, might not make it.

I took some more pics today of the curves, it was only just open when I took the other pics, it opened after a shower of rain. They do look even to me. It has it's end protected under an Eriobotrya leaf, I am hoping for seeds! Philly x glory seeds.