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Cardiocrinum giganteum

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Cardiocrinum giganteum, giant Himalayan lily, takes up to seven years to produce its huge, trumpet-shaped flowers on stems that can grow to 4m (15 feet) in height.

Cardiocrinums are bulbous plants in the Liliaceae - distinguished from Lilium by their heart-shaped leaves and hapaxanthic life history (bulbs die after flowering, but produce new bulbous offsets, which root and grow independently). The sweetly scented flowers are enormous (to 35 cm or 14 inches long) and appear at the end of June. Large seedpods follow, splitting open in October, exposing the papery seeds to the wind. Seeds germinate readily, but seedlings are vulnerable to slugs.

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