Lilies: Some interesting species bulbs, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
It is amazingly beautiful Patti! The pics are a very true representation of the colour.

I wondered if I should ask rareplants, that is where I bought the species bulbs from.

I'm trying to fathom how this bulb may be like it is, the flower is exactly like the pics of L pyrenaicum. If some bulbs can make several stems then they would be larger than the normal single stemmed bulb surely? Perhaps a stage of maturity as it has been around for some time. If the bulbs were congested and growing sideways, and they cut them away from the clump, at the same time severing the roots could there be such a large woody area at the base of the bulb?

The seller has one more I found listed on ebay with a buy it now price, not selling as it's really late. She has put her story on the listing, and has given the local nursery a bulb to try to ID as they don't know what it is either. Perhaps I should contact her to say what I think it is and ask how the bulb grows, i.e has she cut off the roots or is it rhizomatous.

She says it needs to be close to the surface as the bulbs like to be baked in the sun (origin rocky slopes?), I wonder if I buried my other bulb too deep.