Japanese name: タモトユリ（袂百合） Scientific name:Lilium nobilissimum
[Overview]
A perennial growing on cliffs and similar places near the coast, reaching about 150 cm tall.
It has a spherical bulb about 6.5 cm across underground.
The scales are yellowish white and not bitter.
The leaves are simple and alternate, oblong to ovate, up to about 18 cm long, with entire margins.
There is a short leaf stalk.
A raceme at the top of the stem bears several trumpet-shaped flowers facing upward.
There are 6 tepals, about 14 cm long, white, and strongly fragrant.
The pollen is yellow.
The fruit is an ovate-oblong capsule.
[Notes]
The Japanese name is said to come from the practice of climbing down from the top of a cliff on a rope, gathering this lily, and carrying it back up in one's sleeve.
