Poison bulb
చెంగల్వবড়ো কানসুর
Crinum asiaticum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 1.1 m
Amaryllidaceae
Also called Tree Crinum, Poisonbulb
Formerly Bulbine asiatica
When it flowers
Flowers June to April in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Bulbous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Indian Ocean, Trop. & Subtrop. Asia to SW. PacificKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from World Plants, one source
- Height
- 1.2 mRead from Wikipedia and World Plants, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1.2–1.2 m; World Plants 1–1.2 m
- Spread
- 99 cm to 1.2 mRead from World Plants, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from World Plants, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia and World Plants, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from World Plants, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Asiatische Hakenlilie, Asiatische Giftlilie
- Chinese
- 文珠蘭, 文殊蘭, 允水蕉
- Chinese (China)
- 文殊兰, 亚洲文殊兰
- Japanese
- ハマユウ(広義), ハマオモト(広義), 浜木綿
- Estonian
- aasia kriinum
- root
- Pokok Bakung, Bisechrangebard, Piga' Palåyi
- Spanish
- Lirio listado
- Russian
- Кринум азиатский
- French
- Grand crinum
- Indonesian
- Bakung
- Thai
- พลับพลึง
- Finnish
- aasiankriinumi
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- World Plants, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Crinum asiaticum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.