Lilium davidii grows up to 1.5m high, and bears up to about 20 unscented flowers with recurved tepals (bent backwards), orange or reddish orange, from July to August.[4]
The plant is cultivated for its edible bulb.[4] It is a stem-rooting lily (adventitious roots emerging above the bulb) that also forms bulbils.
The species is named for French missionary and naturalist Armand David (1826-1900).
^Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
^Mao, A.A. & Bhaumik, M. (2007). Notes on Lilium davidii Duchartre - a rare beautiful lily from Manipur, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 31: 436-438.
^ abLiang Songyun (梁松筠 Liang Song-jun); Minoru N. Tamura. "Lilium Linnaeus". Flora of China. Vol. 24.
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