Scientific name: Liliumspp

Alias: Lily, Garlic, Zhong Fenghua, etc.

Family and Genus: Liliaceae Lilium

Origin and distribution: temperate regions such as China, Japan, North America and Europe. Lily, with graceful posture, beautiful green leaves and slender stems, is a valuable cut flower rookie.

Morphological characteristics: Externality of scales is one of the bases for species classification. The scales of lily are mostly needle-shaped and knotless, and most of them are arranged on the bulb disk in the form of composite tiles to form bulbs. The surface of the stem is usually green, or brown striped, or almost completely brownish red. Stems are usually cylindrical and hairless. Leaves arranged in a spiral, rarely whorled. The shapes of leaves are lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate and oblanceolate, oval or strip. Leaves sessile or shortly stipitate. Leaves entire or papillose. Flowers are large, solitary, clustered or in racemes. Flowers stand upright, droop or extend horizontally, and their colors are often bright. Perianth segments, divided into 2 rounds, free, usually bell-shaped and trumpet-shaped. The colors are white, yellow, pink and red. Stamens 6, filaments slender, anthers oval.

Growth habit: Lily is cold-tolerant, but the optimum growth temperature is between 15-25 degrees, and it will grow poorly below 10 degrees or above 30 degrees. Lily generally likes acidic soil with ph value of 5.5-6.5 and humus-rich soil with bulk density below 1g/cm3. Avoid flooding and prefer semi-shady environment, but excessive shading will cause the flower stems to grow white and the flower buds to fall off.

There are more than 90 kinds of wild lilies in the world, and China is the origin center of lilies in the world. According to the investigation, there are 46 species of 18 variety in China, accounting for more than half of the world total, among which 36 species are endemic to China, and there are 15 variety in Nanping, among which 5 species are wild lily, 1 variety, and 65438 variety. There are two kinds of wild Lilium lancifolium and Lilium lancifolium in mountainous areas, which are valuable germplasm resources in China. Flower breeding experts from the United States, France and the Netherlands have visited Nanping for many times and praised these varieties as rare and excellent varieties in the world, with regional characteristics and development potential.

Lily has high nutritional content and medicinal value. As early as 2000 years ago, lily was cited by Chinese medicine and described in detail in Materia Medica. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lily has the functions of moistening lung, relieving cough, clearing heart fire, calming nerves, tonifying middle energizer and benefiting qi, and can be used to treat pulmonary tuberculosis with chronic cough, blood in phlegm, asthenia, fright and delirium, beriberi edema, etc. Commonly used lily medicinal diets include honey fried lily, lily fragrant rice porridge, lily dangshen pork lung soup, lily chicken soup, lily stew and so on. The commonly used clinical prescriptions are Lily Anemarrhena Decoction, Lily Dihuang Decoction, Lily Slip Powder, Lily Dry Powder and Fresh Lily Juice. Lily is a good tonic and a famous food, but because of its sweet and cold taste, it is not suitable for people with wind-cold cough, loose stool, weakness of spleen and stomach, prolonged stagnation of cold and dampness, and decline of kidney yang.

Lily, also known as lily garlic, has roots like garlic and tastes like mountains, and underground stems are bulbs. Lily has green leaves, different flower shapes and rich varieties.