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tiger lily
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tiger lily

Lilium lancifolium

Lilium lancifolium (syn. L. tigrinum) is an Asian species of lily, native to China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East. It is widely planted as an ornamental because of its showy orange-and-black flowers, and has become naturalized in numerous scattered locations in eastern North America (particularly in New England).

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

tiger lily in The Natural History of Carolina Florida and Bahama Islands Vol. 2

The Natural History of Carolina Florida and Bahama Islands Vol. 2

Mark Catesby · 1743 · p.181

tiger lily in Compendium of Materia Medica: Illustrated Volume Middle of Middle

Compendium of Materia Medica: Illustrated Volume Middle of Middle

李時珍 · 1596 · p.111

tiger lily in Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 3)

Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 3)

吳其濬 · 1848 · p.56

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49524.