Chinese Sacred Lily

[pheli]

Originally Posted by WhiteRabbit

oh wow - that's interesting

Most pretty bulb plants cannot tolerate our humid summer, such as this one, most lilies, and tulips. So, we must imported a lot of bulbs from other countries every year.

[NYCorchidman]

I don't know how I came to this thread, but here I am to add some info.

Certain flowers are just called lily when they have nothing to do with the actual lily.
A great and very common example is Lily of the Valley. not a lily, but the common name contains lily as part of it.

As for Chinese Sacred Lily, which is indeed Narcissus tazetta, they actually grow wild in parts of China and Southern island of South Korea.

The record goes hundreds of years back where they were treated as weeds growing everywhere near the bank of crop field borders and farmers had hard time getting rid of them.

Narcissus tazetta is originally from Southern Europe, so it is thought that they were somehow carried away to Far East region by early travelers and business traders as part of gift or trade goods, and naturalized there.

[WhiteRabbit]

Originally Posted by NYCorchidman

I don't know how I came to this thread, but here I am to add some info.

Certain flowers are just called lily when they have nothing to do with the actual lily.
A great and very common example is Lily of the Valley. not a lily, but the common name contains lily as part of it.

As for Chinese Sacred Lily, which is indeed Narcissus tazetta, they actually grow wild in parts of China and Southern island of South Korea.

The record goes hundreds of years back where they were treated as weeds growing everywhere near the bank of crop field borders and farmers had hard time getting rid of them.

Narcissus tazetta is originally from Southern Europe, so it is thought that they were somehow carried away to Far East region by early travelers and business traders as part of gift or trade goods, and naturalized there.

Cool info, and timely, as they have started to bloom again