Indian Flame Lily-Gloriosa Superba Flower Stock Photography

This herbaceous perennial grows from a fleshy rhizome. It is scandent, climbing using modified leaf-tip tendrils, the stem reaching 4 m long. The leaves are mainly alternately arranged, but they may be opposite, as well. They are somewhat lance-shaped and tipped with tendrils, and they are up 13 to 20 cm long.The showy flower has six tepals each up to 5 to 7.6 cm long. They are generally bright red[6] to orange at maturity, sometimes with yellowish bases. The margins may be quite wavy. The six stamens also are long, up to 4 cm, and each bears a large anther at the tip that drops large amounts of yellow pollen.