Lilium are bulbous perennials with erect stems bearing whorled or spirally arranged leaves and terminal racemes or umbels of bowl-shaped, trumpet-shaped, funnel-shaped or turk's cap shaped flowers, often fragrant, and white, yellow, orange or red
L. pardalinum is a robust lily forming a clump of erect stems bearing whorled leaves and several nodding, dark-spotted, orange-red flowers 9cm across, shading to yellow at the centre, in summer