Post by koeiyabe on Apr 29, 2015 19:28:12 GMT 1
Lilium nobilissimum
www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/LiliumOrientalSection
www.bdlilies.com/ls98.html
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304423899001156
www.the-genus-lilium.com/nobilissimum.htm
BULB: ovoid; scales white.
STEM: 90-120 cm, upright, stiff.
LEAVES: scattered, broad-lanceolate.
FLOWERS: up to 7 in an umbel, boal- to trumpet-shaped, with waxy texture, fragrant. Tepals pure white, slightly suffused greenish towards base. Filaments green; Anthers and pollen yellow. Style green with a broad stigma. Seed delayed hypogeal germination. Flowering time July-September. 2n=24.
Only seen in the limited cliff called Tamoto-ga-ura of Kuchino-shima, Tokara Islands. It was listed as EW but is listed as CR by Japanese Red List now.
This lily has a scientific name called "the Noblest flower." A local elder fisherman said " the purest-white lilies seen from a sheer cliff bloomed perfectly. The strong perfume of the lilies was oppressive. This beautiful figure was the beginning of tragedy.
The islanders of Tokara Islands were in miserable, poor condition after WWII finished. They were defending their own islands to the death with poverty and hunger. Gardeners visited Kuchinino-shima and made an offer to buy up bulbs of the lily at high prices. Many young islanders clamber up a cliff to collect its bulbs. One of them wrapped a lifeline around his waist and collected a maximum of 40 - 50 bulbs. The strike price was an exceptionally low price. One bulb was priced as one fifth of a monthly salary of a generally government employee. The bulbs were sold quickly at high prices in Japan. When it was designated as a national monument in 1953, the bulbs totally spread over Europe and America to repeatedly cultivate Lilium 'Casa Blanca.' One of its foundation seeds is Lilium nobilissimum. Currently, cultivated bulbs has gotten back to its original place to recover, but the lily is not possibly pure in anatomical term of flower and leaf.
www.aruzou.com/tokara/tamoto.htm
References: B. M. T. 28: 23, f. I (1914); Makino & Nemoto, Fl. Jap. ed. 2: 1555 (1931); M.Shimizu in Ishii, 園芸大辞典 6: 2499 (1956); Masam. in Sci. Rep. Kanazawa Univ. 5(2): 108 (1957). basion.: L. japonicum var. alexandrae f. nobilissimum Makino in B. M. T. 16: 15 (1902). Type (icon): N.Iinuma, Somoku-dzusetsu 5: t. 72.
www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/LiliumOrientalSection
www.bdlilies.com/ls98.html
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304423899001156
www.the-genus-lilium.com/nobilissimum.htm
BULB: ovoid; scales white.
STEM: 90-120 cm, upright, stiff.
LEAVES: scattered, broad-lanceolate.
FLOWERS: up to 7 in an umbel, boal- to trumpet-shaped, with waxy texture, fragrant. Tepals pure white, slightly suffused greenish towards base. Filaments green; Anthers and pollen yellow. Style green with a broad stigma. Seed delayed hypogeal germination. Flowering time July-September. 2n=24.
Only seen in the limited cliff called Tamoto-ga-ura of Kuchino-shima, Tokara Islands. It was listed as EW but is listed as CR by Japanese Red List now.
This lily has a scientific name called "the Noblest flower." A local elder fisherman said " the purest-white lilies seen from a sheer cliff bloomed perfectly. The strong perfume of the lilies was oppressive. This beautiful figure was the beginning of tragedy.
The islanders of Tokara Islands were in miserable, poor condition after WWII finished. They were defending their own islands to the death with poverty and hunger. Gardeners visited Kuchinino-shima and made an offer to buy up bulbs of the lily at high prices. Many young islanders clamber up a cliff to collect its bulbs. One of them wrapped a lifeline around his waist and collected a maximum of 40 - 50 bulbs. The strike price was an exceptionally low price. One bulb was priced as one fifth of a monthly salary of a generally government employee. The bulbs were sold quickly at high prices in Japan. When it was designated as a national monument in 1953, the bulbs totally spread over Europe and America to repeatedly cultivate Lilium 'Casa Blanca.' One of its foundation seeds is Lilium nobilissimum. Currently, cultivated bulbs has gotten back to its original place to recover, but the lily is not possibly pure in anatomical term of flower and leaf.
www.aruzou.com/tokara/tamoto.htm
References: B. M. T. 28: 23, f. I (1914); Makino & Nemoto, Fl. Jap. ed. 2: 1555 (1931); M.Shimizu in Ishii, 園芸大辞典 6: 2499 (1956); Masam. in Sci. Rep. Kanazawa Univ. 5(2): 108 (1957). basion.: L. japonicum var. alexandrae f. nobilissimum Makino in B. M. T. 16: 15 (1902). Type (icon): N.Iinuma, Somoku-dzusetsu 5: t. 72.