I believe I have sucesfully identified this plant as a Lily. Family: Liliaceae, Genus: Tricyrtis If I am not mistaken. However I was wondering if someone could help me pinpoint the Cultivar. This video clip shows the flower in question. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYX3CQk30JI Thanks! -Brian
hi blaze 312, i think what your looking for is Tricyrtis T. hirta. and your spot on with the Liliaceae. hope this helps :-D
Thanks lukey! I just updated the info on the video clip. I was wondering Does Tricyrtis T. hirta even have a Cultivar? I am new to this so I may not completely understand the terms
this is something i've just pasted from my college work, it should explain things a little :-D Family This would be a group of genera with very similar characteristics and is used to denote major groups of plants like trees, herbs, ferns, palms more accurate than order which falls before family and a little less accurate than genus. An example of a family name is Ranunculaceae, which is the buttercup family, and is mostly a group of herbaceous plants with a few woody climbers and shrubs which contains around 1700 species of flowering plant, in around 60 genera. Genus A group of closely related plants containing one or more species; this is the basic grouping of similarity or relationship between plants. Going back to the buttercup family, the genus for this group of plants is Ranunculus and within this group of genera there are around 600 species of plant. The genus should have a capital letter, and be written in italics. Species This is a category of biological classification which can be used to group similar individuals with one or more distinct characteristics. A species is identified by two Latinised words, the genus being the first and the species name second which should always be written in lower case italics. For example Ranunculus repens is identified as the creeping buttercup and Ranunculus calandrinioides the calandrin buttercup. Cultivar Short for cultivated variety, this is a variety which originated in cultivation and not in the wild and would have been deliberately selected for certain characteristics, such as the colour and shape of the flower, disease resistance, yield of crop. You will know you are looking at a cultivar when the word var. and a full stop appear after the genus and the species, the variety name will follow. For example Glyceria maxima var. variegata, this variety is an ornamental grass and is cultivated for its two coloured (variegata) leaves. Hybrid Hybridization occurs when cross pollination between two plants result in the offspring bearing very similar characteristics to both the parents. The name of the resulting hybrid will have elements from both parents and be connected or preceded by an x. Hybridization can occur between two cultivars within a species and may result in a new cultivated variety, or between species resulting in a new interspecific hybrid. Much rarer is the hybridization between two genera, resulting in an intergeneric hybrid. Sorbus x hostii and Aster x amethystinus are two examples of hybrids.
lukeypukey thanks for the great info! i looked at some of the images, and do not believe this one to be a tojen, mainly because the petals are much thinner and have more prominent purple spots. After doing a search for tojen I stumbled onto this site at: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/b/Lili ... ultivar/0/ My strain seems to closely resemble the 'Blue Wonder' cultivar. Of coarse, I still don't know for sure, I'm no expert and there are strains that don't have pictures. Plus mine seems to have slightly less purple spots then the Blue Wonder. You set me down the right path though! I won't officially consider it a Blue Wonder yet, but so far that is the closest possible match.
im pretty new to this myself and was half expecting someone to jump in and correct me. you could be right though, just had a look at a few of the blue wonders and they definately look very similar to yours :-D
