Flame lily
ಅಗ್ನಿಶಿಖಾकलिहारीகார்த்திகைப்பூ
Gloriosa superba L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.7 m
- wide
- 61 cm
Colchicaceae
Also called Tiger's Claws, Gloriosa Lily, Climbing Liliy, Climing lily, Dragon Flower
Formerly Eugone superba, Gloriosa angulata, Gloriosa cirrhifolia, Gloriosa doniana, and 9 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year 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
- Tuberous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean, Indian Subcontinent to Lesser Sunda Is.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; Wikipedia full
- Height
- 1.5 m to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, orange, redRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, red, yellow; Wikipedia brown, orange, purple, red, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Gloriosa
- Czech
- glorióza vznešená
- Afrikaans
- Rooiboslelie, Geelboslelie, Geelvlamlelie
- root
- seHokgwe, ompilu, sehokgwe
- German
- Ruhmeskrone
- Indonesian
- Kembang Sungsang
- Japanese
- ユリグルマ, 狐百合
- Chinese (China)
- 嘉兰
- Sinhala
- නියඟලා
- Chinese
- 嘉蘭 鐵線雞爪, 嘉蘭百合, 嘉兰
- Swahili
- mwana funzi, Mkalamu
- Russian
- Глориоза роскошная
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
- NC State Extension, 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
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Gloriosa superba (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.