Lilium tsingtauense, also known as twilight lily, is an East Asian species of plants in the lily family.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesGilg, Ernest Friedrich 1904. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 34(Beibl. 75): 24 description in Latin, commentary in German It is native to Korea and eastern China (Anhui + Shandong Provinces).Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 138 青岛百合 qing dao bai he Lilium tsingtauense Gilg, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 34(Beibl. 75): 24. 1904.
Lilium tsingtauense is an herb up to 85 cm tall, growing as a single stem from a scaly bulb. It has smooth, inversely lanceolate leaves, about long and mostly in 2 whorls. The plant bears loose umbels of 6 (but may be up to 15) upright, unscented, shallow trumpet-shaped flowers, that blossom under partial sunlight. These appear in midsummer and are orange or reddish-orange with maroon spots.
It is named for the city of Qingdao in The People's Republic of China, which was then known as Tsingtau under the German lease on the Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory.
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