Oniyuri

Oni lily is a perennial herb of the lily family that blooms in summer and produces numerous orange-red flowers with spots. It is characterized by the presence of a bulb at the base of its leaves, and its scaly stem is edible as "lily root. The name "onyuri" comes from the orange-red color of the flowers and the outwardly curved petals, which resemble a red devil. Even today, farmers grow onyuri in their gardens as a remnant of the days when it was used as an emergency food source. オニユリは夏に咲くユリ科の多年草で斑点のある橙赤色の花を多数開く。 葉の付け根にむかごを付けるのが特徴で、鱗茎は「ユリ根」食用になる。 オニユリの由来は花の色が橙赤で外側に反った花びらが、赤鬼のようだからこの名がつけられた。 現在でも、農家が庭先などでオニユリを栽培しているのは、非常食糧にしていた時代の名残だそう。