"FragileWarrior" wrote in message
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"Gerry D (Canada)" wrote in
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:27:41 +0000 (UTC), FragileWarrior
wrote:

My fav flower because it's the one I can get free in ditches and along
railrad tracks and on the edge of creeks.

Except that it's a daylily, not a tiger lily...

Gerry Danen
http://www.lilyregister.com


shrug Tiger lily and daylily were used interchangeably back home. Here
in Indiana they are ditch lilies.

Over the years I've noticed that whether a flower is a true lily or a
daylily, hybrid or otherwise, if it's orange (with or without black spots)
somebody will call it "Tiger Lily"....presumably because tigers are orange
(and black). Maybe it's a good thing white tigers have been extremely rare
until recent times, or any white lily or daylily would get called a "White
Tiger Lily"! ;-)

In reality, there is only ONE species of lily that can *correctly* be called
a Tiger Lily, and that's Lilium tigrinum aka Lilium lancifolium.
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en...=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Regards,
Rick