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The conservation of wild lily populations in Japan For many years Katsuro Arakawa has been a major donor to the Lily Group’s seed distribution scheme. Here, he describes the conservation work he is involved with in Japan. Y FIRST CONTACT with the RHS Lily Group was in the winter of 1989, when MI was building the collection of live lilies at Yurigahara Park in Sapporo. I remember my excitement at the inspiring present of goodly amount of various lily seeds from the Group’s seed distribution in the spring of 1990. I owe many salutary lessons to this seed exchange – and not just that, but it has also brought me new friends in diverse corners of the world. I have had great pleasure from imagining each person’s gardening life, from the letters and emails they send me. Since spring 1996, we have organised our own domestic seed distribution, here in Japan. And our own Lily Society has now been established, grown from the initial nucleus of lily lovers brought into contact with each other through our domestic seed distribution. Some members are on the staff of botanic gardens, in charge of their lily collections. Our seed distribution helps to avoid inbreeding problems such as loss of vigour, and is a valuable fallback resource if and when strains are accidentally lost. The same of course is true of the RHS Lily Group’s distribution, and seeds which we are able to supply to that distribution seem to play the same role. Our Lily Society prints The Lily Society News in spring and autumn, and organises a Lily Tour in the flowering season. We have visited the World Lily Gardens at Yurigahara Park, private lily breeders, agricultural institutes in Hokkaido, and the natural habitats of Lilium dauricum and L. japonicum. In 2006 the Lily Society held a programme of lily lectures to celebrate its fifth anniversary. We plan to hold such lectures every five years, and major topics for us will be the history of relationships between human beings and lilies, and the fragrance of lilies. It is 175 years since L. speciosum was taken back by Siebold and flowered for the first time in Europe. We have long been aware of the beauty of the lily’s form and colouring, and now find great value too in its fragrance. There is also growing interest in the importance of the fragrance to the relationship between the lily and its pollinators, and in its relevance to perfume manufacture. Fragrant lilies like L. alexandrae, L. auratum, L. japonicum, L. nobilissimum and L. rubellum are Japanese endemics. Adding L. longiflorum, six species out of 14 native to Japan are fragrant. 9
Lilium dauricum at Hamatonbetsu on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea in January 2005. Two lily species, L. dauricum and L. medeoloides, are present on Hokkaido, the second-largest island in the Japanese archipelago, which is where I live. Four species, L. auratum, L. japonicum, L. maculatum and L. rubellum, are endemic to Honshu, the largest island. Four other species – L. concolor, L. lancifolium, L. leichtlinii var. maximowiczii and L. medeoloides and L. speciosum – are also present or have in the past been recorded on Honshu, and L. callosum has been recorded from there, as well as from Kyushu, Shikoku and the Ryukyu Islands. Lilium concolor, L. leichtlinii var. maximowiczii, L. speciosum and L. japonicum notably the Hyuga form of L. japonicum are present on Kyushu, L. concolor, and L. leichtlinii var. maximowiczii and L. speciosum var. clivorum and some endemic L. japonicums on Shikoku. Lilium longiflorum is or was confined in the wild to the Ryukyu archipelago. Lilium alexandrae is endemic to just three islands of that archipelago, and L. nobilissimum has been limited to just one small southern island, Kuchinoshima. 10
Page 1 and 2: LILIES and Related Plants 75 TH ANN
Page 3 and 4: Lilies and Related Plants Published
Page 5 and 6: Royal Horticultural Society Lily Gr
Page 7 and 8: Contents Alisdair Aird by Harris Ho
Page 9 and 10: Gennady Firsov, PhD, is Senior Rese
Page 11 and 12: the Lyttel Cup. When I mentioned th
Page 13 and 14: Dee Simmons and her husband Martyn
Page 15: But, now that she is gone, how shou
Page 19 and 20: Above left, Lilium callosum var. fl
Page 21 and 22: var. abeanum is a case in point, or
Page 23 and 24: Two of Derek Fox’s lily cultivars
Page 25 and 26: 18 The lilies of Greece Arne Strid
Page 27 and 28: The five lilies of Greece. A: Liliu
Page 29 and 30: The natural distribution of Lilium
Page 31 and 32: Right, Lilium chalcedonicum, indivi
Page 33 and 34: gracefully curved, bright lemon yel
Page 35 and 36: 28 A brief history of the RHS Lily
Page 37 and 38: Greece . . . . . . . . . . S.C. Atc
Page 39 and 40: initiate a programme of chromosone
Page 41 and 42: Faced with this continuing situatio
Page 43 and 44: Hence this review… We are extreme
Page 45 and 46: TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Consider the
Page 47 and 48: TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Lilies Derek
Page 49 and 50: well established. Therefore almost
Page 51 and 52: growing plants in a climate that ha
Page 53 and 54: Lily Year Books The Year Books of o
Page 55 and 56: Institute became more and more conc
Page 57 and 58: Above left, ‘Descant’, Top righ
Page 59 and 60: visitors at New Mill, often summone
Page 61 and 62: A group of North Hybrids sent to Br
Page 63 and 64: 56 Dr A.F. Hayward (1933-2006) Dr T
Page 65 and 66: Lily ‘Connecticut King’, the cu
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Lilium regale and asiatic hybrids f
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European and Middle Eastern lilies
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A group of asiatic hybrids and two
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growing in half shade, so I have no
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68 Alisdair Aird Harris Howland wri
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70 On the road in search of lilies
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Mount Shasta, rising to 14,162ft wa
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iver whose broad meanders we had cr
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76 North American Pacific Coast lil
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somewhat decadent, in that we parke
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Left, Erythronium multiscapoideum f
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or Cliftonii Group in gardening cir
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Above, Erythronium propullans. The
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Trumpet lilies Walter Erhardt write
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Two beautiful trumpet hybrids. Abov
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Commercial lily production in tunne
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Table 2: Perth Long-term Averages J
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We also use a combination of cow ma
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Table 3: Lilium Varieties continued
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for making of barragons, a genteel
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ulbs soon. I have seen this lily gr
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suggestion that White grew or certa
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Geographic location The territory o
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Left, Fritillaria ruthenica growing
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Threatened species As a result of o
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Tulipa biebersteiniana in the Fomin
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ees and butterflies in the air, and
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Above, a large population of gladio
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glades at places Berezniki (environ
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Dubrava, in upland oakwoods, alder
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villages. These include Scilla sibi
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The International Lily Registrar Ka
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of Wester Ross beyond an ever-chang
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Allium angulosum 114 decipiens 114
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(Lilium) ‘Prunotto’ 96 pseudoti
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