Lilium hansonii
| Japanese turk's-cap lily | |
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| Lilium hansonii flowers | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Liliales |
| Family: | Liliaceae |
| Genus: | Lilium |
| Species: | L. hansonii |
| Binomial name | |
| Lilium hansonii Leichtlin ex D.D.T. Moore | |
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Lilium hansonii, called the Japanese turk's-cap lily,[2] is an East Asian species of plants in the lily family.[1][3][4] It is native to Korea, Japan, and to Jilin Province in northeastern China, as well as being widely cultivated as an ornamental.[5]
Lilium hansonii is a vigorous early–flowering stem–rooting true lily. It has elliptic to inversely lanced–shaped leaves, pale green, up to 7 inches (18 cm) long and carried in whorls of 12–20 leaves. In early summer it produces racemes of up 10–14 small, nodding, fragrant, flowers with recurved tepals of a brilliant orange–yellow. The tepals are fleshy and show purplish–brown spots near the base. The plant grows to 3–5 feet (1–1.5 m) tall.
Lilium hansonii is named for Peter Hanson (1821–1887), a Danish–born American landscape artist who was an aficionado of tulips and also grew lilies.[6][7]
References
- 1 2 Tropicos search for Lilium hansonii
- ↑ Brako, L., A.Y. Rossman & D.F. Farr. 1995. Scientific and Common Names of 7,000 Vascular Plants in the United States 1–294.
- ↑ Leichtlin, Maximilian 1871. Moore’s Rural New Yorker 24: 60
- ↑ Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany 14(76): 245–246 description in Latin
- ↑ Brickell, Christopher, ed. (1996), RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, London: Dorling Kindersley, ISBN 978-0-7513-0436-7, p. 613
- ↑ Coombes, Allen J. (1992), The Hamlyn Guide to Plant Names, London: Hamlyn, ISBN 978-0-600-57545-0
- ↑ "Peter Hanson, the artist", New York Times, 23 February 1887, retrieved 21 July 2011
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