The Main Plant entry for Crinums (Crinum)

This database entry exists to show plant data and photos that apply generically to all Crinums.

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

Common names

Crinum

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Location: Austin, Texas
Date: 2021-10-15
This lily has a lovely fragrance

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2018-06-23
#pollination

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2020-06-06

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Location: Tampa Bay, Florida
Date: 2023-02-02

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Location: Ritz Carlton, Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico
Date: 2013-11-07

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Location: Coastal San Diego County
Date: 2018-09-12

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Location: Cary, North Carolina private garden
Date: 2021-07-03
One of the many Crinum lilies I grow

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Location: Sebastian, Florida
Date: 2023-06-26

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Location: Enterprise, Al. 36330
Date: 2013-07-11

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Location: Sebastian, Florida
Date: 2017-06-08

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Location: Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-04-10

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Location: San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Texas
Date: 2022-04-06

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2013-06-03

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2013-08-06

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Peter A. Mansfeld [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses

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Location: Ritz Carlton, Dorado Beach, Puerto Rico
Date: 2013-11-05

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 9-11-12
w/ Silver Spotted Skipper (an alliteration)

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Location: Animal Kingdom, Orlando, FL
Date: 2014-11-16

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Location: Balboa Park Botanical Structure, San Diego, Ca
Date: 2013-08-16

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Location: Opp, AL Z8b
Date: 2022-12-27
freeze-ruined foliage, limp stems & discolored leaves

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Location: New Orleans, LA
Date: 2013-04-02

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Location: Washington Oaks State Park, Palm Coast, Florida
Date: 2012-10-22
Fading blooms.

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Location: Washington Oaks State Park, Palm Coast, Florida
Date: 2012-10-22

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Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2013-07-22
First flowerbud

Uploaded by TexasPlumeria87

Location: Houston, Texas
Date: 2013-06-22
NOID Crinum

Uploaded by Marylyn

Location: Houston, Texas
Date: 2013-06-22
NOID Crinum bulbs

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-08-25

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Location: Middle Tennessee
Date: 2011-12-31
typical crinum bulb

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Uploaded by TexasPlumeria87

Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2013-05-16
NoID crinum finally emerging.

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Location: Opp, AL Z8b
Date: 2017-06-05
Inflorescence that has emerged from crown, not the center of the

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-09-12
Sprouted sitting on my desk.

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-09-12
Sprouted in garage.

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-06-16

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Location: Carol's garden
Date: Aug. 20, 2015

Uploaded by piksihk

Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-10-23
in the garage

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-08-30
(Just the pods, not the seeds on the left)

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Location: Enterprise, Al. 36330
Date: 2013-07-11
Plant starting to bloom in July

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Uploaded by Marylyn

Location: Vero Beach, Florida
Date: 2016-06-18
Photo taken at McKee Botanical Garden; labeled Crinum sangria but

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2015-12-11

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-08-26

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Location: central Illinois
Date: 2011-08-20

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Location: Middle Tennessee
Date: 2012-02-29
Crinum bulbs and bulblets

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Comments:

Posted by SongofJoy (Clarksville, TN - Zone 6b) on Feb 22, 2012 5:55 AM concerning plant:

Crinums are herbaceous plants with large bulbs that produce a neck or a pseudostem made up of the sheathing bases of the old leaves. The leaves are linear to sword-shaped, sheathing at the base, primarily arranged in a rosette and often dying back in winter. Usually, the previous season's leaves grow out again in spring with a few new leaves in the middle.

The blooms arise laterally on a long, solid main peduncle, the main inflorescense stalk, with flower stalks radiating from one central point and having one to many flowers. The flowers have short or long stalks that are spreading or held together in a trumpet shape. The stamens are either curved, ascending or angled downwards. The ovary appears as a swelling between the flower stalk and the tube. (PlantZAfrica)

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Posted by Marilyn (Kentucky - Zone 6a) on May 22, 2013 10:14 PM concerning plant:

"Crinum is a genus of about 180 species of perennial plants that have large showy flowers on leafless stems, and develop from bulbs. They are found along the sides of streams and lakes in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide, including South Africa.

Crinum leaves are basal, typically long and strap-shaped, with colors ranging from light green to green.

Several species are used in aquariums.

Cytological studies have shown some 27 species of Crinum to be diploid with a normal chromosome count of 2n = 22. Abilio Fernandes found that the Orange River Crinum bulbispermum had a count of 2n = 66, and some desert Crinum macowanii 2n = 44. These polyploid species produce seeds that are often parthenogenetic triploid or diploids, lack vigour and seldom grow to mature plants."

Taken from wikipedia's page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

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Seedfork	On June 28, 2015	Bloomed Bloomed a little early this year, and the blooms are beautiful.
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