LILIES - RHS Lily Group
LILIES - RHS Lily Group
LILIES - RHS Lily Group
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Lilium dauricum at Hamatonbetsu on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea in January 2005.<br />
Two lily species, L. dauricum and L. medeoloides, are present on Hokkaido,<br />
the second-largest island in the Japanese archipelago, which is where I live. Four<br />
species, L. auratum, L. japonicum, L. maculatum and L. rubellum, are endemic<br />
to Honshu, the largest island. Four other species – L. concolor, L. lancifolium,<br />
L. leichtlinii var. maximowiczii and L. medeoloides and L. speciosum – are also<br />
present or have in the past been recorded on Honshu, and L. callosum has been<br />
recorded from there, as well as from Kyushu, Shikoku and the Ryukyu Islands.<br />
Lilium concolor, L. leichtlinii var. maximowiczii, L. speciosum and L. japonicum<br />
notably the Hyuga form of L. japonicum are present on Kyushu, L. concolor,<br />
and L. leichtlinii var. maximowiczii and L. speciosum var. clivorum and some<br />
endemic L. japonicums on Shikoku. Lilium longiflorum is or was confined in<br />
the wild to the Ryukyu archipelago. Lilium alexandrae is endemic to just three<br />
islands of that archipelago, and L. nobilissimum has been limited to just one<br />
small southern island, Kuchinoshima.<br />
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