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Aug 18, 2014 9:43 PM CST
Name: Rick R.
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Really beautiful flowers, Mike.

As far as I know, the "black heart" characteristic evident in your photos is always from L. rosthornii, but the easiest way to tell the two species apart is the lower group of the dimorphic leaves:
rosthornii = narrow leaves
henryi = wide leaves

Lilium rosthornii
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