Lilium Tigrinum (lancifolium) is an heirloom favorite, quite properly known as the "Tiger Lily" of "Grandma's garden" fame. It has pendant big orange flowers with black spots and recurved tips. It is a notoriously vigorous grower and naturalizer, producing a big crop of stem "bulblets" every year and aerial bulbils, (resemgling black beads thickly arranged along the stem) Once they develop rootlets, these bulbils can be easily raised to blooming size, in fact will plant themselves if allowed to drop to the ground. If you seek a rapidly-propagating lily, this one's FOR YOU! In the Orient this species is raised for its edible bulbs (delicious in veggie stir-fry dishes. Very enduring and virus-resistant. We cannot keep up with the revival of demand for this hard-to-get species. Bulb size this Fall will be 16/18 cm, expected to produce 8-10 flowers the first season.

Height: 4 ft.
Bloom Time: July-August