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| Fritillaria camschatcensis | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Liliales |
| Family: | Liliaceae |
| Subfamily: | Lilioideae |
| Genus: | Fritillaria |
| Species: | F. camschatcensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Fritillaria camschatcensis | |
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Fritillaria camschatcensis is a species of flowering plant native to northeastern Asia and northwestern North America, including northern Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, northern Japan, and the Russian Far East (Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands).[1] It has many common names, including Kamchatka fritillary and Kamchatka lily.
It is also called rice lily, northern rice-root, or (misleadingly) Indian rice or wild rice, because of the rice-like bulblets that form around its roots.
Description
[edit]Fritillaria camschatcensis produces bulbs with several large fleshy scales, similar to those of commercially cultivated garlic. Leaves are lanceolate, up to 10 cm long, borne in whorls along the stem. Stem is up to 60 cm tall, with flowers at the top. Flowers are spreading or nodding (hanging downwards), dark greenish brown to brownish purple (chocolate colored),[2] sometimes mottled with yellow.[3][4][5][6] The flowers have a characteristic foul smell, and are pollinated by flies drawn to the offensive odor.[2]
an illustration showing the flower
Yellow-flower form
Flowers in Mount Haku, Japan
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 "Fritillaria camschatcensis (L.) Ker Gawl". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 30 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Chocolate lily".
- ↑ "Fritillaria camschatcensis in Flora of North America @ efloras.org".
- ↑ "v.29-30=no.1148-1236 (1809) - Curtis's botanical magazine - Biodiversity Heritage Library".
- ↑ "vol. 1 - Caroli Linnaei ... Species plantarum - Biodiversity Heritage Library".
- ↑ Shimizu, Tatemi. 1983. New Alpine Flora of Japan in Color 2: 358, as Fritillaria camtschatcensis forma flavescens
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