Lily

To make this flower I used the taper modifier on a cylinder. The end caps were removed from the cylinder then the transform handle placed at the base of it with the adjust pivot only mode. Using soft selection on the top of the cylinder a taper modifier was added so that the cylinder would fan out at the top. A second taper was used on the z axis to create the lip of the flower. For the stamen a cylinder was edited then duplicated and placed inside the flower cylinder. Appropriate diffuse colours were used on the parts of the flower

screenshot of lily

render of lily