Cardiocrinum giganteum Seeds ~ Giant Lily

Cardiocrinum giganteum Seeds

Cardiocrinum giganteum or Giant Lily as it is commonly known has spectacular fragrant, trumpet-shaped blooms as many as 50 at a time. Cardiocrinum is a small genus in the Liliaceae family whose members are distributed from northern India to Japan. Three species are in cultivation, but only Cardiocrinum giganteum has been well established in cultivation.

If you have never seen these plants, try to imagine what you might get by crossing a lily and a hosta. They grow best under hosta conditions rather than lily conditions.

Generations of writers have repeated the incorrect notion that these plants are monocarpic. They are not monocarpic. Yes, the flowering stems die after seed set; in fact, they die whether seed is set or not. But so do the fruiting stems of tulips, lilies, fritillaries and a host of other similar plants. The perennial stem (i.e. the basal plate) and its offset bulbs live on from year to year.

Named giganteum, meaning “very large”, this species is native to the Himalayas, Myanmar (formerly Burma), and China.

No discussion of the genus Lilium would be complete without mention of Cardiocrinum giganteum, its close relative.

The foliage of this huge bulbous species resembles that of a hosta, but in flower it is much like a stupendous trumpet lily.

The bulb takes more than 3 years to flower from seed but is worth the wait because the typical flowering stem is 2.4 m to 3 m tall, with as many as 20 large flowers. This plant prefers light shade, a rich soil and adequate moisture in summer.

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