After more than 12 years of work, the Council of Agriculture’s Taiwan Seed Improvement and Propagation Station (TSIP) said it has successfully developed two kinds of colored Zantedeschia aethiopica, commonly called the calla lily, that could be grown in Taiwan.
While the usual calla lily is white, one of the new varieties, called Taoji (), is a deep, vibrant red, and the other, called Xiangjishi (), is a yellowish-orange. The new lilies are hybrids grown from cross-pollinating Zantedeschia aethiopica from the Netherlands, the US and New Zealand.
The TSIP said it discovered there was a huge market for colored calla lilies when farmers imported the first of its kind into Taiwan in 1986, adding that cut flowers — flowers arranged in vases, bowls, baskets or bouquets — from the calla lily were imported by countries like Japan.
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