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River Crinum Lily

Crinum viviparum

Also called Hardy Swamplily, Orange River Swamplily, Orange River Lily, Vaal River Lily, Vaal River Swamplily

River Crinum Lily
Photo: Renjusplace, CC BY-SA 3.0

Crinum viviparum is a bulbous lily-type plant in the daffodil and onion family, found across Asia from the Indian subcontinent to Indo-China, with white, pink-edged flowers on stems up to about 60 cm. It is a moisture-loving species that grows best in wet or consistently damp soil, often at pond or stream margins.

Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist to wet; it tolerates shallow standing water.
Soil
Rich, moist, heavy soil or loam; a wet bog or pond-margin mix works well.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 8 °C.
How easy
Moderate

About

Crinum viviparum is a Monocot plant species in the family Amaryllidaceae distributed across Asia. No subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.

Where it grows

Crinum viviparum is widely distributed in Asia: from the Indian subcontinent to Indo-China. In Vietnam names for this species include: nàng, nàng la gươm, and náng hoa đỏ.

Other Crinum plants

Seven sisters · Crinum angustifolium · Poisonbulb · Crinum bakeri · Hardy swamplily · Crinum calamistratum · Darling Lily · Pink Striped Trumpet Lily · Crinum lorifolium · Pyjama lily · Crinum malabaricum · Crinum mauritianum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Crinum viviparum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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