Lilium martagon

LILIUM martagon
Turk's Cap Lily, Martagon Lily

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Type:
Perennial

Height: 3-4' (90-120cm)

Flowering Time: Summer

Flower Colour: Pink, maroon, white

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Botanical Classification:

Class:
Angiospermae (Angiosperms)

Subclass: Monocotyledonae (Monotyledons)

Superorder: Liliidae (Lily Superorder)

Order: Liliales (Lily Order)

Family: Liliaceae (Lily Family)

Genus: Lilium (Lily)

Species: martagon (from the Turkish for a Sultan's turban)

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Lilium martagon is a vigorous lily with a purple-speckled stem 3' or 4' high, with whorls of stiff deep green leaves. In summer, it has long spikes of smallish pink to red flowers with maroon spots, with turned back petals and prominent stamens.
The flower buds are covered in thick white down, so that at the tight bud stage, they look like balls of cotton wool inside the calyx.
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Harvesting and Growing from Seed:

Seed Pod
The seedpod is a fat ribbed cylinder opening into three parts.

Seed
The seeds are flat light brown oval discs. There are many seeds in a seedpod.

Seedling
The single seedleaf is wide, fleshy,and deep bluish green.

Seed sowing and Germination
Winter: Seeds sown outside at the beginning of winter germinated in 409 days.
Other types of Lily seeds sown indoors between damp paper towels germinated in 12-27 days.

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	Seed Pod The seedpod is a fat ribbed cylinder opening into three parts.
	Seed The seeds are flat light brown oval discs. There are many seeds in a seedpod.
	Seedling The single seedleaf is wide, fleshy,and deep bluish green.
Seed sowing and Germination Winter: Seeds sown outside at the beginning of winter germinated in 409 days. Other types of Lily seeds sown indoors between damp paper towels germinated in 12-27 days.