Commercial Floriculture

Varieties in Lily

• There are numerous Lily varieties. But, among the Lily varieties, only groups like the Asiatic and Orientals are the most popular flowers and widely grown.

  • Asiatic Lilies - small flowers, less fragrant, wide colors.
    
  • Trumpet/Aurelian Lilies
    
  • Oriental Lilies - Have strong fragrances, few colors, larger, flowers
  • The Wild Lilies
    
  • Martagon hybrid Lilies - Edible and Esculent herbs
    
  • Candidum hybrid Lilies
    
  • American hybrids Lilies
    
  • Longiflorum hybrid Lilies - strong, sweet fragrance, large funnel shaped flowers, usually white.
• Lilies are really excellent plants for beds and borders. Lilies are suitable for use in a shrub border, as accent plants, a formal or naturalized pool planting.
• Even some of the small species would fit perfectly in an alpine rock garden.
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