Lilium maculatum var. bukosanense("Miyamasukashiyuri")
Japanese name: ミヤマスカシユリ(深山透百合) Scientific name:Lilium maculatum var. bukosanense
[Overview]
A perennial that grows with its stems hanging down from limestone areas.
Underground it has an ovoid, fleshy, white bulb.
The stem is ridged, and the lower part has papillate projections.
Young stems have some white woolly hairs.
Leaves are simple and alternate, broadly linear, with entire margins.
The leaf surface is glossy.
The leaves have no stalk.
A raceme at the top of the stem bears one to several upward-facing flowers.
The flowers are cup-shaped.
There are 6 tepals, orange-red, with reddish-brown spots on the inner surface.
The tepals are strongly recurved, with gaps between them.
The fruit is a capsule.
[Notes]
The Japanese name comes from the fact that it grows in deep mountains and that there are gaps between the tepals.