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Lucius93 said:Thx Virginia.
I think we should not break our heads about this lily because it's clear to me that even authors don't know what they are talking about. The early info about Chinese trumpets are all over the place and sometimes they use different name for every color variety. They even use wrong synonyms as you can see in tha last post. Leucanthum var. chloraster is synonym of var. leucanthum and not var. centifolium. Centifolium has brownish, pinkish or purplish reverse with green vein. So it's very variable. Var. leucanhum has greenish reverse. Lilium sulphureum always produce bulbils so trumpet without bulbils is not sulphureum and so far there is no sulphureum reported in Gansu. They also stated that sulphureum is not variable species which is again wrong. You have many color variations of that species: some are completely sulphur yellow, some has white flowers with yellow throat and some even has green reverse. All of these variations produce bulbils.
One more thing. They mentioned this mysterious lily doesn't produce any offset bulbs which is characteristic of leucanthum, a lily from Gansu.

Yes, leucanthum seems to be where Mr. Constable ended up, but it could be a hybrid or garden selection, and without "breaking my head", I'd still like to know what this is, and if it's still in cultivation somewhere...