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Is this an orange ditch lily?

Is this a ditch lily?

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  • 6 years ago

    Sorry couldn't attach a picture to my original post. I thought it might be a bluebell plant when moved from another place when we moved to this place but obviously not.




  • 6 years ago

    Thanks for responding Hoosier. We have had the coldest, wettest summer in an already wet climate (think rain forest) in many years. I have been blaming that on the late blooming which was just last week. Would you need a better picture of the whole plant or just the flower? I'll try to post a better picture tomorrow if it'snot raining ☔. I would be ecstatic if this was not Fulva Europa.

  • 6 years ago

    Just the flower would help.

    Ladydi Zone 6A NW BC Canada thanked hoosier_nan (IN z5b/6a)
  • 6 years ago

    Still raining and windy (hence me holding the flower stem) 🤪! I'm not sure if this pic helps with ID but worth a try.



  • 6 years ago

    I notice there there is an extra petal on the blooms in two of your images . I have had fulva Europa growing here for over 30 years . Never seen a single bloom with extra petals. Also your plant looks to be short and Fulva Europa is not short . To show you what another daylily that is similar to F. Europa , here is Salmon Pagoda

    ( quite similar both in height and coloring) . An easy way to check if your plant is F.Europa would be to dig it up . F. Europa is stoloniferous ( spreads by roots not seeds) or wait to see if your plant develops seed pods . If it does, it is not F.Europa (you could try crossing your plant with another daylily pollen. Fulva will not develop seed pods ( or at least extremely rarely )


    I would be interested to know how tall your plant is and if it is planted in a location where it gets full sun for 6 hours a day

    Just a side note there are three other fulvas. there is Fulva Kwanza , (grows more than the 6 normal petals3/sepals on Fulva Europa i.e. a second full layer of petals , Fulva Kwanza flore pleno, i.e grows 3 layers of petals , and Varigated leaf Fulva . .

    Also if you look at Hoosier Nan's image , the petals are much more orange than yours . Yours almost appear to be somewhat "greyed" out . It could be from all your rain or it could indicate that your plant is not F. Europa

    Ladydi Zone 6A NW BC Canada thanked signet_gw(6b)
  • 6 years ago

    Signet, thank you for your explanation. Very informative.