Orange lily
ലിലിയം ബൾബിഫെറം
Lilium bulbiferum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 88 cm
- wide
- —
Liliaceae
Formerly Lilium aurantiacum, Lilium croceum, Lilium humile, Lilium lateritium, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. Europe to Romania, CorseKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 71 cm to 1.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 20–90 cm; Plants for a Future 1.2–1.2 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, orangeRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (7)
- Czech
- lilie cibulkonosná pravá
- German
- Feuer-Lilie
- Finnish
- ruskolilja
- Polish
- Lilia bulwkowata, smolinos
- Slovenian
- brstična lilija
- Chinese
- 橙花百合
- Malayalam
- ലിലിയം ബൾബിഫെറം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Lilium bulbiferum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.