''Lilium arboricola'' is an

epiphytic An epiphyte is a plant or plant-like organism that grows on the surface of another plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. The plants on which epiphyt ...

lily species with green flowers, and orange-red anthers. It was first botanically described by Francis Kingdon-Ward and his assistants

Chit Ko Ko U Chit Ko Ko (, ; 1917–2008) was a noted Burma, Myanmar botany, botanist. He produced a number of papers into botanical research he conducted in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia. His 1961 paper on List of Trees and Shrubs, co-written with H. G Hundl ...

and Tha Hla after a collection in the Shan region of

Myanmar Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has ...

in 1953. Specimens from this collection flowered once in cultivation in

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and were then lost. It was thought that it had been rediscovered in Lao Cai,

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

, in 2006, and introduced thence to Britain and Canada, but this turned out to be a new species ('' Lilium eupetes'')Julian Shaw, Three New Crûg Farm Introductions, Plantsman 7(1): 39-43 (2008)
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arboricola Flora of Myanmar Epiphytes {{liliales-stub