Lilium formosanum

Lilium formosanum

  • Lilium formosanum
  • Lilium formosanum
  • Lilium formosanum
  • Lilium formosanum
  • Lilium formosanum
  • Lilium formosanum
  • Flower name
    Lilium formosanum
  • Scientific name
    Lilium formosanum
  • Aliasタイワンユリ, 台湾百合, ホソバテッポウユリ, 高砂百合
  • Place of originTaiwan
  • Place of floweringFields and footpaths, Botanical Gardens, Overseas
  • Flowering seasonJuly, August, September, October
  • Language of flowersMajesty

What is Lilium formosanum

Lilium formosanum or takasagoyuri (scientific name:Lilium formosanum) is a hardy bulbous plant native to Taiwan and lets white flowers bloom resembling a Lilium longiflorum (Easter lilies, scientific name:Lilium longiflorum). Formosanum (Lilium formosanum) and Longiflorum (Easter lilies, :Lilium longiflorum) are similar and have red streaks on the outside of the tube-shaped flowers both cylindrical and make the white flowers of the same size bloom , but Formosanum has slender leaves , higher plant and longer flowering time than Longiflorum. Longiflorum blooms in the spring, Formosanum does to fall from summer .

✙✙Natural hybrid of Formosanum and Longiflorum
Shin Easter lily (a new Easter lily, a scientific name: Lilium x formolongo) is one article of cause of Liliaceae made from a natural crossing of Formosanum and Longiflorum. Lilium x formolongo lets a white pipe-formed flower bloom in early fall from summer, but there is not the red stripe outside of a pipe , and the leaf is thin and spreads with a seed.

General name: Lilium formosanum , scientific name:Lilium formosanum, aka: Takasago Yuri ,Taiwan Yuri, Hosoba Teppou Yuri(narrow Easter lilies), origin: Taiwan, plant: 100-150 cm, flowering period: July-October, color: white, size: 10 cm.


  • Order
    Liliales
  • Family
    Liliaceae
  • Genus
    Lilium
  • Species
    L. Formosanum
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Monopetal inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    Lilies
  • Leaf type
    Cylindrical
  • Edge of the leaf
    Entire
  • Life typeHardy bulbs
  • Flower colorsWhite
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorBrown Green
  • Height100.0 ~ 150.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower10.0 ~ 10.0 cm

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