Lilium davidii
Jane McGary via pbs (Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:00:36 PDT)
I have Lilium davidii and find it a good garden plant. I have not
noticed any fragrance from it. Some of the pale-flowered lilies are
night-scented, e.g. L. centifolium, but L. davidii (the typical form,
which I have) is deep orange and reflexed, and presumably has not
evolved to attract nighttime pollinators. As for L. centifolium, I have
a stem of it in the living room, and it releases its fragrance at dusk
despite having been in a vase for 4 days. This timing indoors also
occurs with Gladiolus tristis.
Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA
On 7/1/2021 9:14 AM, R Hansen via pbs wrote:
Does anyone grow Lilium davidii? Mine is blooming for the first time, from
seed, and Eddie McCrae's lily book claims it's fragrant while Lilies of the
World did not, at least at first glance, make mention of fragrance. I had to
bring out a new hand lens, a triplet 10x made in Bosnia of all places, to
determine that the description really matched. I suspect mine is variety
unicolor, because it is a single pale orange color with not many spots
compared to the other davidiis. I've had ssp. willmottiae for years and
davidii is definitely shorter.
But, I really wanted fragrance, and I don't smell any. If anyone else is
growing this, I'd be curious to know about the fragrance or perhaps I just
can't smell it.
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