''Lilium tsingtauense'', also known as twilight lily, is an
East Asia
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n species of plants in the
lily family.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref> It is native to Korea
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and eastern China
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(Anhui
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+ Shandong
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Provinces).
''Lilium tsingtauense'' is an herb up to 85 cm tall, growing as a single stem from a scaly bulb. It has smooth, inversely lanceolate
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leaves, about long and mostly in 2 whorls
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In nature
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. The plant bears loose umbel
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s of 6 (but may be up to 15) upright, unscented, shallow trumpet-shaped flowers, that blossom under partial sunlight. These appear in midsummer and are orange or reddish-orange with maroon spots.[
It is named for the city of ]Qingdao
Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...
in The People's Republic of China
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, which was then known as Tsingtau under the German lease on the Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory
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.
References
tsingtauense
Flora of North-Central China
Flora of Southeast China
Flora of Korea
Plants described in 1904
Taxa named by Ernest Friedrich Gilg
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