Large and erect but arching trumpet lily six to twelve(!) ft. high in rich, well-drained soil. The long linear to lanceolate leaves are scattered along the stem and produce small bulbils in their axils. The large and spectacular flowers are alabaster flushed with rose-purple and greenish or yellowish shades along the outsides of the tepals. An absolutely magnificent fragrant species, the variably-colored flowers are up to six inches long and four inches wide at the mouth. Native to W Sichuan and NE Yunnan, China where it occurs in rocky valleys from 2,000 to at least 8,000(?) ft.
SEH#142I was very happy to find this extremely rare species (in cultivation) which was originally collected in 1903 by E. H. Wilson in W Sichuan. These are large one year old bulbs (from bulbils) grown from my own collection of this exciting plant at about 7,500 ft. in NE Yunnan Province, China. The lilies were growing from steep, virtually inaccessible cliffs in a deep wide canyon with a rushing river far below. It was a scene I will never forget.(0?)RSBG#480sd1996
