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Martagon Lily
Lilium martagon
Lilium martagon, the martagon lily or Turk's cap lily, is a Eurasian species of lily. It has a widespread native region extending from Portugal east through Europe and Asia as far east as Mongolia.
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Description
It is stem-rooting, growing between 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) and 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) tall. The flower colour is typically a pink-purple, with dark spots, but is quite variable, extending from near white to near black. The flowers are scented. Numerous flowers are borne on each plant, and up to 50 can be found on vigorous plants. The green stems can be flushed with purple or red and the leaves are elliptic to inverse lanceolate, mostly in whorls, up to 16 centimetres (6.3 in) long and often lightly hairy underneath.
How it is grown
Horticulturally it is in Division IX (true species). This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Lilium martagon was used in hybridising with L. hansonii at the end of the 19th century by Mrs RO Backhouse of Hereford, England.
Wikipedia: “Cultivation”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
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Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.204
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.594
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.538
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.995
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.228
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.145
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.207
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.202
History of Monsters
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1642 · p.711
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.93
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85027.