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Also Known As	true lily • Lilium

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Close-up of a blooming Easter lily (Lilium longiflorum) with white petals and yellow-orange stamens, surrounded by green stems and additional lilies in the background.

Flame lily Gloriosa superba with wavy, red and yellow petals and long yellow stamens, blooming among green leaves in a greenhouse.

Lilium umbellatum.

Pistil and stamens

View the blooming of a Cornish lily

See how the petals of a white water lily flower open and fold in on themselves to keep the flower watertight when closed

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