Easter lily
StarLilium lancifolium
Synonyms: Lilium lancifolium var. splendens, Lilium lancifolium var. fortunei, Lilium leopoldii, Lilium lishmannii, Lilium tigrinum, Lilium lancifolium var. densum, Lilium lancifolium var. flaviflorum, Lilium tigrinum var. fortunei, Lilium tigrinum var. splendens, Lilium lancifolium melpomene, Lilium lancifolium album, Lilium tigrinum var. plenescens, Lilium tigrinum var. erectum
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In Traditional Chinese Medicine the dried fleshy bulb scales of Lilium lancifolium are one of the botanical sources of the drug "Bai He" (Lilii Bulbus), a sweet, slightly cold, moistening remedy used to nourish yin and moisten the lungs for dry cough and sore throat, and to clear heat and calm the spirit in cases of restlessness, irritability and insomnia (Chinese Pharmacopoeia; Bensky, Materia Medica). The starchy bulb is also a traditional East Asian food, cooked as a vegetable and used in soups and desserts (PFAF).
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Botanical Description
Lilium lancifolium (tiger lily; syn. L. tigrinum) is a bulbous perennial herb of the lily family, growing 1-2 m tall from a large fleshy white scaly bulb. The erect, dark, often cottony stems bear many alternate, narrowly lance-shaped sessile leaves, and characteristically produce small dark purplish-black bulbils in the upper leaf axils, an important means of vegetative reproduction. In summer it bears several large, nodding, strongly recurved (turk's-cap) flowers with bright orange to orange-red tepals heavily spotted with dark purple-black, and long protruding stamens tipped with conspicuous dark red anthers. The fruit is an oblong capsule, though the plant (a frequent triploid) often sets little seed and spreads mainly by bulbils. Native to eastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea and the Russian Far East), it is widely cultivated as an ornamental and for its edible bulb.
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