White Toad Lily

White flowers with a green flush and decorative, pink anthers. The tepals are recurved giving the blooms a little frill. Each flower is 3cm long.

Toad Lilies are strong growing plants with masses of orchid like flowers. The blooms form at the tips of the stems. The flowers open for a long period from late summer to autumn.

The leaves spread up the stems in an attractive fashion. The leaves grow up to 15cm and look like elongated hearts. They have a soft, hairy covering, that gives this Tricyrtis its other common name, Hairy Toad Lily.

Toad Lilies are a woodland plants that requires a humus rich, moist but well drained soil in semi shade to filtered light. Water to establish and keep moist during active growth. Remove spent flowers to encourage more blooms.

Whilst Toad Lilies or Tricyrtis sp. look like Orchids, they are in the Lily family. It is variably suggested they are commonly known as Toad Lilies because they like to grow where Toads live; or because they are spotted like toads; or because of their lumpy nectaries.

Supplied as: Bare rooted