Data specific to Lilies (Edit)
Division: I. Asiatic Hybrids

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Flowers: Showy
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Cut Flower
Toxicity: Other: All parts of the plant are lethal to cats
Propagation: Seeds: Other info: Species lilies will come true from seed; cultivars and hybrids will not.
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets
Other: Bulb scaling.
Parentage: Lilium bulbiferum var. bulbiferum or Lilium bulbiferum var. croceum X Lilium maculatum

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Common names
  • Asiatic Lily
  • Lily
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Lilium x hollandicum
  • Synonym: Lilium x umbellatum

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Date: c. 1936
photo from the 1936 catalog, John Scheepers, New York City, NY

Date: c. 1937
photo [as L. umbellatum grandiflorum] from the 1937 catalog, Yere

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