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Port Moody, BC
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Posted - 06/05/2005 : 10:35 PM
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My "Plants of Coastal BC" book says the range of chocolate lilies only goes as far north as mid-Vancouver Island, and yet my boyfriend was on a hike near Prince Rupert during which these flowers were identified as chocolate lilies.
Here are the pics:
Closeups
Pictures of a cluster
Can anyone verify/refute that they are chocolate lilies? |
Edited by - Janie on 06/05/2005 10:36 PM
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 Trail running, bike hucking, fast packing, beer drinking collector of pine cones on a day pass
AKA
Dances with Trees
Forest Gnome Cabin
Canada
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Posted - 06/06/2005 : 2:59 PM
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Can't be sure,as I've never seen one,but here is a pic Rich took on that Elk-Thurston hike you guys were on.Are they the same?
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Outdoors addicted flyfishing, skiing, snowshoeing, hiking car crooner and resident motormouth
Da'Wack, BC
Canada
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ass wigglin, cheese lovin, 4x4 drivin, apostrophe hatin, hiking chick who loves camping on snow
spaceship..
Canada
7209 Posts |
Posted - 06/06/2005 : 5:07 PM
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Cool - I've never seen chocolate lillies, what a pretty flower 
I wonder if they taste like chocolate? (j/k - Im being silly  ) |
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Outdoors addicted flyfishing, skiing, snowshoeing, hiking car crooner and resident motormouth
Da'Wack, BC
Canada
5370 Posts |
Posted - 06/06/2005 : 5:23 PM
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Here are two pics from our trip to Mowich:
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Telkwa
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Posted - 06/07/2005 : 4:01 PM
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As you can see from the two photos - the ones from Rupert are Fritillaria Camschatcensis (aka chocolate lily, indian rice, black lily etc) and the bottom ones are Fritillaria Lanceolata (aka chocolate lily, rice root, checker lily etc).
The camschatcensis variety can be found from Alaska to Washington state and northern river valleys.
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Port Moody, BC
Canada
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Posted - 06/08/2005 : 3:36 PM
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| I guess the amount of speckling varies greatly? The photos I have show very little of it. |
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Herbal tea drinkin, tree huggin, view seeking, tortoise paced, ultralite wannabe
Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Posted - 06/08/2005 : 3:51 PM
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different species, different phenotypes. Thanks, telkwa for the info. Fritillaria lanceolata is what we saw on Elk. way cool. I love naming things  ANd just FYI, genus is capitalized, species is not and names are italicized, hehehehe |
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Telkwa
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Posted - 06/08/2005 : 8:35 PM
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Sorry just being lazy.
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Chocolate lilies near Prince Rupert
