About Lilium formosanum A.Wallace
Lilium formosanum A.Wallace grows to a height between 120 and 150 cm. It produces small, rounded bulbs that reach approximately 2 to 4 cm in diameter, made up of white to yellowish lanceolate scales. The stem is smooth to papillose, and is sometimes tinged with purple. Its leaves are linear or narrow and lanceolate, measuring 2.5 to 15 cm long and 4 to 13 mm wide, and are freely distributed around the stem. This plant blooms from June to December, producing one to five fragrant, funnel-shaped flowers arranged in an umbel. The hermaphrodite flowers are trimerous. The six identically shaped flower bracts are broadly spatulate and 11.5 to 14.5 cm long. The flowers are pure white as their base color, with purple coloring on the outside. Each flower holds three carpels and six stamens. The anthers measure around 10 mm long, the pollen is yellow, and the filaments are very long, at approximately 10 cm. The nectaries are green and papillose on both sides. Seeds mature within slender seed capsules that are 7 cm to 9 cm long, and germinate immediately above the soil surface.
