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Just wait one minute WW, Lilies, a member of the onion family, with bulbs that have a scales (more like a garlic bulb than a onion) are one plant, but daylilies, are whole 'nother plant!
daylilies--hemerocallis-- have foliage that is long spears, that grow tall and arch over.. the flowers appear on leafless slalks, the large buds (edible!) open to a an orange flower with a deeper redder color in the throat. (common Daylilies) but hybrid Daylillies come in almost ever color of the rainbow, from "Little grapette" the color of a frosty grape ice, to "gentle Shepard" a very, very pale yellow --almost white, to "Stelle D'oro" a deep golden yellow, and "Bonny Barbara Allan" a pale peachy pink-- but one commonality..
each flower --a flower stalk might have 25 to 50 buds, and a mature plant might put up 2 to 5 flower stalks--each flower only last one day.. that is why they are day lilies.. with multiple flower stalks, and so many buds, the flowering season for a day lily can be 6 to 8 weeks.
(now every one get down on your knees and say a "thank you prayer" to god, that i don't have my garden book here, and stopped after one paragraph about daylilies!)
Lilies, are tall grace full plants, with whirls of foliage on the stem, and the flowers appear on the top of the stem. there are oriental, Asiatic and common (tiger) lilies. and while they are members of the Onion family, lily bulbs are poisonous. and it seemed you were talking about lilies, since lilies do sometimes have little bulblets at the place were the leave attaches to the stem. lilies have a strong aroma, daylilies, almost none.
(and lilies of the valley, is yet again a whole nother plant!)
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Behold the lilies of the field. They toil not, neither do they spin.......
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i wonder if this is temperture related--some of these transplanted ones will develop the little suckers (miniature plants) on that leafless stem, since in 30 years i have never seen one, in NY!
In china town grocery stores, you can buy a 1 lb. bag of dried daylily buds.. they sort of taste like green beans, but sweeter.. they are used in "hot and sour soup" and many mixed vegetable dishes.
common daylilies are common in NY too, and are hardy to the middle of Canada. some think they are originally from China, so they might be common in europe too.
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I guess what I have heard called "tiger' lilies are very close to what you call "day" lilies. One of our friends had a very tough little boy, whose mother thought to protect her tiger lilies by telling him "The tigers would get him if he pulled up any of the flowers". She came back a bit later, and found them all pulled up, and her son proudly told her "The damned tigers didn't get me!" Here is a URL with pictures of some lilies. Not as good as I hoped for. http://members3.clubphoto.com/michael262713/118833/guest_icons.phtml
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Dr. bill that is a great-- If you double click on the photo's, (thumbnails) they get bigger..
the day(Tiger) lily is a Lily (Onion family) and the "curled up lilies is too, (and in that photo, you can see the plant foliage..
the Daylily close up, and the Daylilies in the garden show daylilies.. the second clearly shows the daylily foliage, and the foliage free stalks that daylily flowers grow on. as does the "bending in the breeze" photo.
but the daylilies and Margarites, has real lilies.. its almost as if the person taking the photos, or creating the web site didn't know the difference.
the bending in the breeze photo looks like a "chicago royal robe" daylily. i can't be sure, but Chicago Royal
Robe is a deep rich red, with a deep golden throat.
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Yes, we have daylillies in the UK. There was a clump in my lovely Yorkshire garden (the garden was planted in the thirties by an expert horticulturalist, I was very greatful as she didn't see many of the plants come to maturity).
The ones in the photograph (thanks Bill), as described by Helen are what I know as daylilies. The others (including tiger lillies) are true lilies. I grow quite a variety, here in Scotland, they look more exotic than they are.
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= Torches at a meeting of the clans in Survivor.
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Dear TEd: that would be inclandescent.
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