Seeing in the photo a beautiful image of a giant lily strewn with flowers, it is difficult to resist buying a "tree-like" beauty. But, in order not to become a victim of scammers, it is better to first ask about information about lilies in general.
In the spring, you can meet sellers of lily bulbs in the market, near which there is always a crowd of not only onlookers, but also buyers. And those, and others, as a rule, cannot take their eyes off the photographs that accompany the planting material. This is a pyramidal-shaped large bush, strewn with flowers of white, pink, lilac, orange.
The price, of course, is “sky-high”, but if you take two, then the third onion is offered as a gift. Well, how to resist such a tempting offer? However, when the purchased lilies bloom, the hostess discovers that they are the most ordinary, only a little larger. It’s good if the color is different, but it happens that it does not differ in variety.
Does tree lily exist in nature
The concept of "tree" is well known to gardeners in association with a peony, so the "tree lily" does not bother anyone. But the peony got its name due to its powerful woody rhizome, and not its gigantic size. Lily, even if it is very large (like a tree), still remains a bulbous plant.
Breeders who possess knowledge of all the 6 thousand varieties of lilies that exist in the world claim that a tree lily is nothing more than a myth invented by scammers. Yes, and Photoshop skills can work wonders.
Experts explain the appearance of the "new" variety of lilies by the fact that many hybrids are "capricious" and can get sick even from an excess of nutrients. This disease is called fasciation - the fusion of several stems into one. In this case, the plant looks like a single trunk with a “cap” of inflorescences on the crown. This phenomenon is not the norm, but an exception to the rule, when once in a few years of growth in one place the lily suddenly grew together. Most likely, capturing such a spectacle, fraudsters present it in different colors under the guise of a "tree" lily.
There is a kind of giant lily, which can also be represented as a tree - cardiocrinum. The sight during flowering is really amazing, but such a variety blooms 1 time after 7 years, after which it dies. Therefore, information about caring for large hybrids of lilies, if attributed to tree lilies, should be drawn from ordinary sources about all types of lily and about lilies in particular.
