Fasciated Lilys

A quick count looks like there are about 50 buds on each.

I just checked mine again this morning and the other two have broken off. I suspect it was one or more of the cute little kittens I have living under my house.

It is a good thing that I love cats and they are cute. :)

Dee

Too bad they broke off Dee. I wonder if just the weight of the extra buds could cause them to break. Moby, that one is going to be a recorded breaker it looks like. Wonder if there is a place in the Guniess Book of Records for the lily with the most buds on one stem?

Susan

Susan, I am not ruling out the weight caused them to break. I said that about the kittens because they have virtually destroyed plants (hostas mainly) in two of my beds, using the plants as their own personal jungle. :)

Dee

I can believe kittens would have a lot of fun climbing up a lily stem! My cat is not even a kitten and every once in awhile he mistakes a daylily bloom for prey. Here he is after sucessfully clawing one to death.

Susan

This message was edited Jun 1, 2006 9:32 AM

He looks like he is saying, "Look, Mom. I protected you from the big bad daylily! Aren't you proud of me?!" ;o)

Do ya think the crossed eyes had anything to do with it?? I'm sure it looked like much larger prey than it really was.

LOL Sorry Susan, I just had to do it... Is this your sweet Samson?

Sweet Samson? Also known as 'The Evil One'!

Just saw some pix of fasciated martagons. Have written to poster to see if I can use here. I've never seen anything like them before.
inanda

Sure hope the poster give the 'ok'.

Yes he did, David in Latvia. Now to see if I can get them in here.

Here is a picture today of the 3 fasciated lilys. Looks like one might make it without aborting. The tall one was the least fasciated of the 3. Now its the only one that didnt loose most of the bud.

Here are some pics that belong to a friend of Inanda.

Fasciated Martagons

Another...

One with alternate leaves

Double whorled leaves

Dont ya just wish you could clone them though!!

Menkids, I hope you have those staked. Looking a bit top heavy.

Nope...not staked yet. Tonight I looked at the runt(Pictured above). Guess what...It too has flat stem. But its only a double stem. It was to dark to take a picture. Maybe tomorrow. It looks like it has set about 24 buds. Its gonna be a double pink asiatic.
I also checked on the bulbs that I purchased from Walmart in the past. Every single one has bloomed as a different flower than what the package has said it was....even the pictures on the packages were different than what bloomed.
So, maybe the first 3 fasciated lilys may not be samur? This is kinda like a box of chocolates...as Forest Gump would say.

OOOOoooo, you mean you haven't seen it yet?? How exciting!

Walmart Lily = Mystery Lily (me thinks)

That Double whorled leaves one is neat!

Susan

Here is a new picture of the runt(pictured above) Oh Yeah..its fasciated....count about 24 blooms.

Here is another picture of it...the one on right is normal, the one the left is the fasciated double pink.

Last year I had a fasciated L. pumilum....This year it came with an initially round stem but with a very full 'tuft' of leaves at the tip...Well! The tuft has turned into fasciation again! The stem is now flattened and there are a bunch of little buds forming. Crazy. I thought it would revert

I like the leaves! and its loaded with buds....what color is it?

Yep, it has that 'hairy' look. Take lots of pics and keep us up to date!

Did you take a picture of it last year in bloom ESW?

bright red sealing wax ...little blooms very cute!
Here is last year's>

Is that L. pumilum?

yep!

Thanks for sharing picture ESW. Its a cute lily! Here is todays pictures of mine. I am getting quite anxious.

Here are the 3 other ones.

Here is the one with the most buds.(that didnt abort)

Wow. Are ever going to get some GREAT pix of Fasciated blooms.My one and only surviving pumilum bloomed yesterday - one bloom. I immediately selfed it and collected the pollen. Now I'm wondering what the use it on, when other things bloom. My first asiatic blooomed today. Honey Wind, /dont like it at all. A red/pink/yellow mixture. It is not a keeper. Not in RHS Registry. Maybe Patterson never registered it. H;mmm.... Will have to look into this.

Here she is ~ Rosario blooms on fasciated stem #1. The other I'll post when it's a little further along.

Fantastic! Looks like it would be hard to even count the number of blooms.

Susan

Moby...that is absolutely gorgeous. Most of the buds on mine aborted so I didn't get this effect.

Dee

That is amazing!!

Looks like a ready made wedding bouquet. Maybe the start of a new business venture?