Lilies: Some interesting species bulbs, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
If L. xanthellum flowers this year I will be posting pics so keep a watch out!

I bought another lily off ebay, no name given but a pic of the plants the bulb came from, which are supposed to increase well. They added a pic of the bulb part buried in a pot, now I see they are selling another one with the same pic of the bulb! Hmm, it may be similar but not exactly the same! As they added the pic towards the end of the auction I guess I may get the one shown.

I lifted the pic off the auction page, the flowers were just said to be yellow spotted turkscap, heavily scented and blooms in early summer. It looked to me like the pic of L ciliatum which rareplants were selling for £17.50, but now don't have. The pic of L ciliatum on the deflorum site looks a little different.

I now wonder if it could be L pyrenaicum which I have got, but what I could see of the bulb didn't look anything like mine.

http://www.deflorum.com/species/pyrenaicum.html

http://www.deflorum.com/species/ciliatum.html

The flowering time of early summer fits L pyrenaicum, but that can differ, the location of the seller was Ireland. Besides that, deflorum states L ciliatum is not fragrant.

The foliage on L pyrenaicum in this pic doesn't look the same, more upright

http://www.bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS/GRAPH...

Not sure if the foliage looks like L ciliatum either

http://www.bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS/GRAPH...

I'm leaning towards L pyrenaicum (even if the bulb looked totally different!)

http://www.srgc.org.uk/bulblog/log2006/210606/log.html


Does anyone recognise it?