Javanese lily (Pancratium zeylanicum), also called sea daffodil, is a bulbous perennial from coastal tropical Asia and Malesia with fragrant white flowers. It is grown in warm, bright spots and needs a dry rest if you want reliable flowering.
Family
Amaryllidaceae (Daffodil & onion family)
Grows as
Bulb, Perennial
Light
Full sun, Bright indirect
Water
Water freely while growing, then withhold water for a dry rest period to encourage flowering.
Soil
Free-draining sandy or gritty mix with some loam.
Temperature
18–35 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Laccadive Is. to Malesia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical
About
Pancratium zeylanicum, commonly known as the Javanese lily is a bulbous perennial herb native to Borneo, Java, the Maluku Islands, Sulawesi, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, the Laccadive Islands, and the Philippines.
It is sometimes grown as a hothouse container plant. It does not have a rest period unless water is withheld. It propagates by producing offsets and seed.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
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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.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.