Ann, Bells and Whistles sure is beautiful - I'd love to breed lilium with such colouration.
Sorry for the confuzzling!. A secondary bud arises from a pedicel (flower stalk) that is itself growing from the pedicel of another bud... so it is like another little stem and bud piggybacking on the back of the first (primary) stem and bud. A tertiary is piggy-backing on the secondary.... Here's a picture just posted of a lily with secondary buds:
pardalinum said:
Pendant Peach
And this yellow one has tertiaries:
TennesseeDave said:
It extends flowering because these secondary and tertiary buds flower later than the primaries and secondaries they stem from.
The yellow above also looks like a typical aurelian - a lilium hybrid that comes from the species
Lilium henryi bred with various Chinese trumpet species, such as
L. leucanthum. As a group they are quite likely to have tertiary buds or at least secondary, because tertiary buds are a strong trait of
L. henryi that its offspring may inherit.
Lilium speciosum is a late flowering species with fragrant reflexed blooms placed in the Oriental group. It also produces secondary buds. I haven't seen it with tertiaries, but I probably just haven't grown it well enough - yet!
Together
L. henryi and
L. speciosum contributed much to the development of Orienpets, also known as OT lilies, the group of hybrids between Trumpet and Oriental species. Orientpets are a good bet if you're looking for lilies with secondaries and tertiaries, but they're not the only ones. A well grown old-fashioned tiger lily,
L. lancifolium will have tertiaries! Many hybrids across all groups (divisions) have secondaries and possibly tertiaries. Best way is to look at photos if you're looking for this trait.
The only lankongense hybrib I have been able to keep alive. A McRae seedling from Chris North material. Note the hairy bud...
Just beautiful!
