Asiatic Lily 'Lollypop'

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Texas_Doodlebug Central Texas, TX(Zone 8a) Apr 21, 2003

Common name: Asiatic Lily 'Lollypop'
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Lilium


Plant Link: http://plantsdatabase.com/go/48959/

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Kelli L.A. (Canoga Park), CA(Zone 10a) Apr 21, 2003

Do all of your "Lollypop" flowers have eight petals?

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Texas_Doodlebug Central Texas, TX(Zone 8a) Jun 04, 2005

No the others have six. I never noticed until you pointed it out. This was the first one that bloomed for me.

I apologize for not responding when the post was originally made. Only visit the boards in the spring and I guess I just missed it.
:-)

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Malus2006 Coon Rapids, MN(Zone 4a) Jul 31, 2008

True - seem like there are consider variety along the lolliop cultivar - some pictures had fewer petals while others have varying amount of pink in the tips - some even have yellow in center of the blooms while others are fully white in the center.

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altagardener Calgary, AB(Zone 3b) Jul 31, 2008

Single-flowered lilies normally have 6 petals. Anyone who grows enough lilies will see abnormalities in petal count from time to time. Hope this helps to explain it.
altagardener

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inanda Winnipeg, MB(Zone 2b) Jul 31, 2008

This crazy spring has done wild and wonderful things to my lilies. I have chimeras, jumped genes, 11 or 12 anthers as well as one with small interior petals. One viva is taller than me (5' 5") while the other is 3 ft. My amabile var. unicolor is over 8 ft. Amazing. My canadense is growing well underground, not rotted as I feared. Best triumph of all is Afterglow, a pardilinum hybrid.

Martagons all behaved, though not all my crosses have worked.

Ants have been a major problem. Too many clumps lying flat on the ground. Don't want to lift stems up in case I snap the stems at ground level.Ants moved in and did major damage while I was playing at NALS>

Best of all - early (VERY EARLY) AM sitting by the lilies watching hummingbirds. Babies are like noisy bumblebees.

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