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
  • Milk and Wine Lily
  • Crinum Lily
  • Confederate Lily
  • Crinum

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Location: Zone 9 Louisiana in my backyard
Date: 2019-06-13
On left are seed pods forming after flowers
Location: Zone 9 Louisiana in my backyard
Date: 2019-06-12
These will split to reveal garlic like seeds that drop for new pl
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