Lilium auratum




Family Liliaceae
Subfamily Lilioideae
Tribe Lilieae
Scientific name Lilium auratum Lindley
Synonyms none
Common name (Japanese common name) yama-yuri (ヤマユリ, 山百合 [meaning: mountain lily])
(English common name) goldband lily, oriental lily
Distribution (Japan) Honshu (north of Kinki region)
(Other nations) none
Habitat Mountane fields or shrub forest
Chromosomal number 2n=24 (2x)
Description Bulbs ca. 10cm. Plants electing 1-1.5m tall. Leaves 15-20cm long, 2.5-5cm wide, non hair. Flowers white (red spotted) perianths each ca. 10-18cm long, flowering in July to August. Fruits 5.5cm. Perennial plants.
Reference Lilium auratum Lindl.
Lilium auratum - Lindl.
Process for mass propagation of plantlets (US Patent 4338745/1982)
Multi-layered porous hollow fiber membrane for use in cell culture (US Patent 5149649/1992)
Selective COX-2 inhibition from plant extracts (US Patent 20040197429)
Remedies (US Patent 20060039998)
Note This large sized terrestrial perennial lily which is endemic to Japan and grows in mountane grassy field or forest.
From the end of Edo era thorough Meiji era (late 19th - early 20th), wild species were over hunted and exported massively to European countries as a symbolic lily of Japan. Due to those, a lot of wild Goldband lily had been in danger of extinction. In recent years, housing land developments have been ravaging places of this lily rapidly. However cultivate Goldband lily can be found normally in a private yard, a botanical garden or a public park and so on.



July 2007
at Tsukuba Botanical Garden
July 2007
at Tsukuba Botanical Garden
July 2007
at Tsukuba Botanical Garden



July 2005
at montane grassy field
July 2005
at montane grassy field
July 2005
at montane grassy field