General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Flowers: Showy
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Hummingbirds
Toxicity: Other: All parts are poisonous if ingested
Propagation: Seeds: Start indoors
Other info: first flowering when grown from seed usually occurs in 3-8 years
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets
Bulbs
Other: some old and established bulbs can be huge, weighing up to 40 lbs; crinums do not like transplanting

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Common names
  • Crinum Lily
  • Ceylon Swamplily
  • Milk and Wine Lily
  • Crinum
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Crinum zeylanicum
  • Synonym: Amaryllis zeylanica
  • Synonym: Crinum latifolium var. zeylanicum

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Date: c. 1778
paper mosaic by Mary Delany, 1778, from the British Museum collec
Uploaded by DaylilySLP
Location: Crinum zeylanicum L. var. ornatum in Burkina Faso
By Marco Schmidt [1] (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecom
Comments:
  • Posted by SongofJoy (Clarksville, TN - Zone 6b) on Feb 18, 2012 1:16 PM concerning plant:
    This plant is sensitive to cold weather, especially prolonged winters.

    It has been grown in culture for nearly 200 years and is prized for its beautiful flowers.

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