A beautiful and rare species of lily, found only in the Dzuko valley. Dzuko
valley is well-hidden among the high mountain ranges on the Manipur-Nagaland
border. The endemic Dzukou lily was first identified, in the Dzukou valley,
by Hijam Bikramjit of the Life Sciences Department, Manipur
University, in the summer of 1991. Bikramjit was part of a Manipur Cultural
Integration Conference team that trekked to the valley that summer. Bikramjit
named it Lilium chitrangadae after his mother. However, later studies
found that Dzuko lily is botanically similar to the revered
Shirui lily, but is deep pink in color.
Identification credit: Tabish
Photographed in Dzukou valley, Nagaland-Manipur
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