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2nd Aug 2015, unkknown location. | Photo: © Mike Baldwin |
It grows to 1.5m and is well naturalised in woods, although this looks like a farmers field.
The flowers start maturing from the bottom upwards; many of those near the top have yet to open and the six unopened tepals are directed downwards. Lower down the flowers, which are on alternate sides of the stem, have opened and curled up over the top leaving the long deep-red anthers dangling downwards on long pale filaments. Two short leaf-like bracts are either side of the long, brownish, terminally-drooping flower stalk. Lower down the stem the bracts become larger. Much further down passed two opposite branches are what look like a whorl of larger leaves. |
2nd Aug 2015, unkknown location. | Photo: © Mike Baldwin |
The flowers are 4cm across with 6 tepals, which if measured straightened up are up to 3.5cm long. |
2nd Aug 2015, unknown location. | Photo: © Mike Baldwin |
The single style with a 3-lobed stigma sitting in the centre is a darker colour than the 6 surrounding anthers almost equi-length redder anthers. |
2nd Aug 2015, unkknown location. | Photo: © Mike Baldwin |
The deeper-red blotches do not appear to have longish pimples, unlike the cultivated species below.
Note the appressed hairs on the stem, which curves over nearer the flower in order to suspend the flower chandelier-style. |
Lilium speciosa 'Uchidia'A cultivar which looks roughly similar |
24th Aug 2011, a garden, nr. Lathom, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Here at the top there are far fewer flowers, some as-yet un-opened. Beneath the flowers are many nearly-opposite elliptic-lanceolate leaves, many almost stalkless apart from nearer the top where the stalks become slightly longer. |
24th Aug 2011, a garden, nr. Lathom, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The petals are, like those of Martagon Lily in the above set, are not pink all over but also have whitish parts as well as the red spots, which are like long pimples. |
24th Aug 2011, a garden, nr. Lathom, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Flower with drooping sexual organs. Note the beetroot-coloured bell-shaped tepal cup at the top from which the flower is supported, albeit upside-down! |
24th Aug 2011, a garden, nr. Lathom, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The 6 central dark-red ribs on the back of the open tepals look like they are instumental in curling the tepals into an 'up and over' job (to copy a phrase widely used by some rugby commentator). The petals are wrinkled at their edges |
24th Aug 2011, a garden, nr. Lathom, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The central style is surrounded by 6 T-bar anthers. |
24th Aug 2011, a garden, nr. Lathom, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The anthers are T-bar in form (unlike those of Martagon Lily in the topmost set above) pale green filaments which narrow towards the anther covered in rusty-orange coloured pollen.
This is in contrast to the style which broadens slightly to the stigma which is match-head in colour (which has some stray pollen on it). |
24th Aug 2011, a garden, nr. Lathom, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
As-yet un-opened flower pods. |
24th Aug 2011, a garden, nr. Lathom, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The red spots are now seen to be red pimples, the ones nearer the centre of the flower having long white stalks. |
24th Aug 2011, a garden, nr. Lathom, Burscough, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, here in a spiral staircase configuration, but maybe not all specimens do the spiral bit? |
Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : see captions No relation to : Lily-of-the-Valley (Convallaria majalis/) [plants with similar names belonging to differing families, this one to Asparagaceae - or at least for the 2010 decade].
There are a lot more plants whose common name has the word 'Lily' but do not belong to the Lilium genus. Five genera belong to the
Go to the Like many Lilies it is poisonous to eat and often leads to kidney failure, then death if not treated with haste. Cats are the animals which are most vulnerable to this plant - usually from the toxic pollen which may dust their fur coat as they disturb the plant which they can ingest when preening their fur.
It has the same colours as does a similar species called ' The specific epithet 'Martagon' is a Turkish word meaning 'Turban'.
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