Lilium arboricola is an epiphytic lily species with green flowers, and orange-red anthers. It was first botanically described by Francis Kingdon-Ward and his assistants Chit Ko Ko

Chit Ko Ko

Chit Ko Ko was a noted Burmese botanist. He produced a number of papers into botanical research he conducted in Burma, Laos and Cambodia. His 1961 paper on List of Trees and Shrubs, co-written with H. G Hundley, identified some 7,000 angiosperms in Burma....

 and Tha Hla

Tha Hla

Tha Hla was a noted Burmese botanist and forestry warden.He began his career in Burmese forestry around 1934. In 1951, along with Chit Ko Ko he met English botanist Francis Kingdon-Ward and conducted further research into plants in Burma. They set off on an expedition and reached Hkinlum in...

 after a collection in the Shan region of Myanmar

Myanmar

Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

 in 1953. Specimens from this collection flowered once in cultivation in Great Britain

Great Britain

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 and were then lost . It was thought that it had been rediscovered in Lao Cai, Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

, in 2006, and introduced thence to Britain and Canada , but this turned out to be a new species (Lilium eupetes

Lilium eupetes

Lilium eupetes is a recently discovered and described epiphytic species of lily from the north of Vietnam. It reproduces by seed and vegetatively via the production of bulbils. When the leaves die back they wither and curl into a circle...

)