Page 6 - «Сахалинское чудо» – Лилия Глена

With the beginnig of July on Sakhalin Island, the islanders
have a rare opportunity to discover a unique miracle in the
coastal thickets and floodplains of rivers - the sprouts of Lilium
glehnii. This blooming beauty is only found in the Sakhalin
Region and in neighboring islands of Hokkaido and Honshu
(Japan).

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Lilium glehnii is one of
the most eye catching
elegant and aristocratic
plants of the island
large grasses. Most
Sakhalin people can
recognize it by a
powerful flowering stem up to 2 meters in height, crowned with
a heavy brush of 8-25 funnel-shaped greenish-white flowers,
horizontally deflected or slightly drooping, on short thick
pedicels. Flowers amaze not with vividly bright colors, but with
the tenderness of pastels, the embossed texture of the petals and
an elegant shape. Blooming of each of the flowers lasts 5-6
days. The stem of the plant is succulent, hollow, at the base up
to 5 cm in diameter. Leaves are cordate, wide, glabrous, on
long petioles. Lilium glehnii is a monocarpic, i.e. after fruiting,
the plant dies off completely, leaving baby bulbs, which are the
organs of vegetative reproduction. At the end of September,
bolls with numerous ripe seeds appears in place of each
inflorescence. There can be up to 12 thousand of them on a
plant. The seeds show extremely slow rates of development,

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