One of the last and tallest remaining members of my lily collection;
Lilium ‘Black Beauty’
A heirloom hybrid between L. henryi and L. speciosum. Its oriental lily blood appears to make it less appetizing to red lily beetle.
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Lilium ‘Black Beauty’ showing more where their name may have been derived from;
As their red flowers age/fade they become darker. Still nowhere near as black as modern hybrids, but I’m sure for their earlier years they were as close as an old garden could get.
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