Evaluation of Lilium Cultivars for Vegetative and Propagation Traits under Temperate Conditions of Kashmir

Abstract

Morphological characterization of 15 genotypes viz. Navona, Malesco, Litouwen, Black Out, Revenna, Pink Palace, Tiber, Conca-D, Nello, Yellow Diamond, Tresor, Rialto, Courier, Cobra, Pavia genotypes was carried out during year 2018 at Division Of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture SKUAST- K Shalimar with an objective  to assess the response to traits of growth and propagation ratio. On the basis of data maximum plant height of 90.70 cm resulted with cultivar black out and minimum 50.60cm with cultivar Navona. Number of leaves per plant followed the same trend with maximum 99.87 noticed in cultivar Black out and minimum 62.20 in cultivar Navano. Leaf area per plant ranged from 166.30 cm2 in cultivar Tiber to 443.50 cm2 in Pink Palace. The leaf area index varied between 1.20 and 1.96 in Tiber and Pink Palace cultivars, respectively. Weight of bulb cluster plant-1 (gm) ranged from 30.81 (gm) in Navona to 72.97 (gm) in Black Out. Variability for weight of subsidiary bulbs per plant varied from 32.65 g in Navona to 80.45 g in Black Out respectively.  Highest values for weight of main bulb plant-1 (73.65 gm) resulted with cultivar Black out and minimum 31.52(gm) in Navona. Weight of subsidiary bulbs plant -1 (gm) followed the same trend recoding maximum 7.30 (gm) with cultivar Black out and minimum 2.70 (gm) for cultivar Navano.  Size of main bulb (cm) ranged between 4.63(cm) in cultivar Navano to 6.33(cm) in cultivar blackout.