Tiger Lily (Lilium lancifolium)

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haighr Laurel, DE(Zone 7a) Jul 26, 2002

Mix of orange and yellow 2002

Common name: Tiger Lily
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Lilium
Species lancifolium

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keithp2012 West Babylon, NY(Zone 7a) Jul 24, 2013

So is the yellow one a mutation?

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haighr Laurel, DE(Zone 7a) Jul 26, 2013

No, I had bulbs for both colors some years ago. Must have been a hybrid though cause I only have the orange now?

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keithp2012 West Babylon, NY(Zone 7a) Jul 26, 2013

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No, I had bulbs for both colors some years ago. Must have been a hybrid though cause I only have the orange now?


That's why it sounds like a random mutation. Hybrids don't change colors, the flowers stay the same color for life. This one yellow flower is a mutation, like how some animals can be albino. If the rest of the flowers are orange that confirms my theory.

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haighr Laurel, DE(Zone 7a) Jul 29, 2013

I thought that if you plant hybrid plants or seeds they may often revert to the original plant. That is why it is best to only harvest your heirloom seed??? I have had a few hybrid echinaceas and unless I deadhead them they will revert back to the purpurea in a year?

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keithp2012 West Babylon, NY(Zone 7a) Jul 29, 2013

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I thought that if you plant hybrid plants or seeds they may often revert to the original plant. That is why it is best to only harvest your heirloom seed??? I have had a few hybrid echinaceas and unless I deadhead them they will revert back to the purpurea in a year?


A hybrid can have qualities from both parent plants, as well as revert back. But like I said if it reverted all flowers would be yellow or all orange. A hybrid could be a flower lets say with orange and yellow splotches.

Your flower was pure yellow on an otherwise all orange plant. It couldn't be a hybrid and didnt revert you just had something like an albino flower show up. Nothing to do with hybrids or seeds.

If you could save seeds from the yellow flower you might have a chance at growing some unusual offspring who could be orange or yellow.

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haighr Laurel, DE(Zone 7a) Jul 30, 2013

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A hybrid can have qualities from both parent plants, as well as revert back. But like I said if it reverted all flowers would be yellow or all orange. A hybrid could be a flower lets say with orange and yellow splotches.


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As I posted in an earlier, the plant did revert back to all flowers being orange and no more yellow.

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haighr Laurel, DE(Zone 7a) Jul 30, 2013

Here it is this year. The original post was 2002. That was the first year for this plant. It has never had another yellow bloom and I never collected the seed that year. In all the years since it has been totally orange flowers.

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altagardener Calgary, AB(Zone 3b) Aug 04, 2013

Note that the yellow flowers and the orange flowers in the original photo are on separate stalks, and presumably from different bulbs, as the OP said. If all you have now are orange ones, it appears the yellow one died out.

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