Lilium arboricola

Lilium arboricola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Liliales
Family:	Liliaceae
Subfamily:	Lilioideae
Tribe:	Lilieae
Genus:	Lilium
Species:	L. arboricola
Binomial name
	Lilium arboricola; Stearn

Lilium arboricola is an epiphytic lily species with green flowers, and orange-red anthers. It was first botanically described by Francis Kingdon-Ward and his assistants Chit Ko Ko and Tha Hla after a collection in the Shan region of Myanmar in 1953. Specimens from this collection flowered once in cultivation in Great Britain and were then lost.^[1] It was thought that it had been rediscovered in Lao Cai, Vietnam, in 2006, and introduced thence to Britain and Canada,^[2] but this turned out to be a new species (Lilium eupetes)^[3]

References

^ arboricola
^ The Garden - Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, May 2007
^ Julian Shaw, Three New Crûg Farm Introductions, Plantsman 7(1): 39-43 (2008)^{[permanent dead link]}

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[1] rboricola

[2] The Garden - Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, May 2007

[3] Julian Shaw, Three New Crûg Farm Introductions, Plantsman 7(1): 39-43 (2008)^{[permanent dead link]}