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dellac said:Hence the longevity of pollen-less lily blooms?

I haven't heard that pollen-less lilies have longer life. Does that seem to be true? Since most lilies are self infertile, would being pollen-less make a difference?

Now you have me second guessing myself: is L. longiflorum self fertile? I don't think so. So why would remove stamens be beneficial? But.... it is closely related to L. formosanum and L. philippinense, and they are self fertile, and perhaps possessing similar genes makes it "try" to fertilize itself in a more meaningful way, and somehow trigger more ethylene production that way (?). I dunno.