Commercial Floriculture

Types of Lilies

• In commercial cut flower growing there are three main types of lilies, with following characterization:

Asiatic	Oriental	Longiflorum
Smaller plants with small saucer-shaped flowers and short narrow leaves.	Larger plants with large saucer-shaped flowers and large leaves.	Larger plants with trumpet shaped flowers.
Flowers in 10 – 13 weeks	Flowers in 14 – 19 weeks	Flowers in 14-17 weeks
Generally fetch lower prices	Generally fetch good prices	Generally fetch higher prices
Easy to grow	More difficult and expensive to grow	Easy to grow but more difficult and expensive to handle
Popular varieties:
Dream land (white)	Star Grazer (Pink)	White Europe
Brunello (Orange)	Mero star	Snow Queen
Navona (white)	Siberia
Connecticut King	Casa Blanca (White)

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