Tigerlilies?

Jackie x Jupiter · Post by **Jackie x Jupiter** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:20 pm

I have lots of tigerlilies growing around outside my house (wild, I believe), and I was wondering if it would be okay to feed the flower, leaves, stems, etc to my babies. I didn't see it listed in either of JMT's sticky topics so I wasn't sure

NaRnAR · Post by **NaRnAR** » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:43 pm

Tiger Lilies are "asiatic lilies" I believe and are toxic.

Only the TRUE Day Lilies are ok for hermit crabs to eat.

(The day lily usually has one bloom on a stem and long leafs at the base of the plant rather than multiple flowers on a stalk with short leafs all the way up the plant stem like the tiger/asiatic lily)

scyllarus · Post by **scyllarus** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:05 am

i've always called the bloody things tiger lilies until i bought this old book about foraging for wild foods, which listed them as day lilies. according to this site:
http://gardening.about.com/od/perennial ... lilies.htm

daylilies have a single stem coming from a clump of leaves, while tigerlilies have a stem with leaves growing up it in spirals or whorls. also, daylilies bloom for a much shorter time - usually just a day - whereas tigerlilies will bloom for a week.

i've actually grown up eating day lilies, they're pretty good in a stir fry. i picked a bloom for my crabs and they seemed to enjoy them, though not quite to the extent that they enjoyed the rose petals i put in a few weeks before.

you can also dry them for later use.

Jackie x Jupiter · Post by **Jackie x Jupiter** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:17 pm

Okay thank you! From the description the ones growing around my house look like orange day lilies

When I get the time I'll post a pic just to make sure they're safe before actually feeding the babies any

Kilimanjaro · Post by **Kilimanjaro** » Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:07 pm

I have daylilies near my house, too, but my neighbor uses a lot of Miracle Grow and I don't trust them for crabby consumption.