Lilium pomponium L.
Fully-hardy, slender, stem-rooting lily with green, purple spotted stems and racemes of up to 6, unpleasantly scented, pendant, turkscap, bright red flowers in summer. To 1m. Also occurs in a double-flowered form. [RHSE, Hortus].
Horticultural & Botanical History
‘Varies with red and yellow flowers, with many flowered and few flowered racemes, some of which are so much contracted as to have the appearance of an umbel; sometimes it is only one or two-flowered. Generally propagated by parting the scaly bulbs. One of the oldest inhabitants of our gardens.’ [BM t.798/1804]. ‘This is the variety [‘Scarlet Pompone Lily’] so generally confounded with Lilium chalcedonicum. [BM t.971/1806].
Introduced to Britain in 1659. [JD].
History at Camden Park
Listed only in the 1857 catalogue [B.314/1857] but the first reference to this plant is a handwritten entry in a copy of the 1850 catalogue held at the Mitchell Library, inscribed on the front Wm. Macarthur, 23rd Dec. 1854. [ML 635.9m].
Notes
Lilium pomponium Lour. = L. lancifolium Thunb. which see.
Lilium pomponium DC. = L. chalcedonicum L. which see.
Published Dec 28, 2009 - 11:24 AM | Last updated Jan 07, 2010 - 01:20 PM
Lilium pomponium L. | BM t.971/1806 as Scarlet Pompone Lily | BHL
| Family | Liliaceae |
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| Region of origin | Europe, Alps and Pyrenees |
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| Common Name | Lesser Turkscap |
| Name in the Camden Park Record |
Lilium pomponium |
| Confidence level | high |