Japanese name: タキユリ（滝百合） Scientific name:Lilium speciosum var. clivorum
[Overview]
A perennial with drooping stems, found on cliffs in the mountains.
The stems are slender, 60–100 cm long.
Underground it has a spherical, fleshy bulb 7–10 cm in diameter, yellowish white or tinged with reddish purple.
The leaves are simple and alternate, long ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 10–18 cm long, with entire margins.
The leaf surface is glossy.
The leaves have short stalks.
A raceme to panicle at the top of the stem bears 1 to several flowers, which bloom facing downward.
There are 6 tepals, strongly recurved, white to pale pink, with deep red spots on the inner surface.
The pistil is shorter than the stamens, and the stigma is truncate.
The pollen is reddish brown.
The flowers are fragrant.
The fruit is an oblong capsule.
