Lily bulb making dozens of stems
gardenpt@aol.com (Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:04:17 PDT)

Perhaps Rhodococcus fascians which causes similar effects in broad leaf plants?

See this:
http://plant-clinic.bpp.oregonstate.edu/rhodococcu…

Jean
in Portland, Oregon

-----Original Message-----
From: Paige Woodward <paige@hillkeep.ca>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Mon, Apr 1, 2013 9:54 pm
Subject: Re: [pbs] Lily bulb making dozens of stems

Hello, Gene.

This looks like a version of fasciation, no? Caused hypothetically by the
interplay of temperature, light and nutrition; the problem is always to repeat
the interplay in a lab. And no one says there's only one formula.

... I send this flippant response because I have encountered fasciation several
times in my garden lilies; they all returned to their traditional form a year
later; and when I tried to recreate fasciation by simple manipulations, I
failed.

Fasciation is complex but it does appear that your lilies are in its temporary
grip.