Tiger Lilies are emerging here, The colors of their dark-speckled orange flowers are why they’re called Tigers, but they look more like a form of marine life that you’d see swimming near an ocean reef.
The images above and below show various stages of the Tiger Lily plant (Lilium lancifolium or Lilium tigrinum). The long flower buds are green at first and then turn orange. As the flower grows, its petals curl back and “stamens” emerge from the flower’s center. They hold out elongated “anthers” full of pollen at their ends for reproduction.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on August 9, 2023.)