[Photo News Ltd. photo. Left—A clump of Lilium pardalinum bulbs with narrow, pointed, white bulb scales. Note last year's bulbs each showing a central hollow in which the stem grew. There is no hollow in the centre of bulbs formed in the current season. Right-Lilium henryi, a typical stem-rooted lily, showing thick contractile roots formed below the bulb, the broad, thin, reddish-brown bulb scales, and a mass of fibrous roots growing from the stems above the bulb.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 80, Issue 2, 15 February 1950, Page 176
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77[Photo News Ltd. photo. Left—A clump of Lilium pardalinum bulbs with narrow, pointed, white bulb scales. Note last year's bulbs each showing a central hollow in which the stem grew. There is no hollow in the centre of bulbs formed in the current season. Right-Lilium henryi, a typical stem-rooted lily, showing thick contractile roots formed below the bulb, the broad, thin, reddish-brown bulb scales, and a mass of fibrous roots growing from the stems above the bulb. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 80, Issue 2, 15 February 1950, Page 176
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