I know what you mean by "the things sticking up" in the lilies...I used to grow lilies like these in my garden. They are oriental lillies, and boy are they lovely. And the smell! I could walk around all day with one of those plastered to my nose...LOL. Anyway, they are part of the petal, sort of fringy, feathery things that are down toward the throat of the blossom. Not stamens or pistils, but part of the petal. I don't really know how to get them to show up better other than zooming in more on the floral arrangement and turning off antialiasing on the lily materials and the materials of the other petals that you want to be less soft. Laurie