Spider lily
মনোরঞ্জনী
Hymenocallis littoralis (Jacq.) Salisb.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 66 cm
- wide
- —
Amaryllidaceae
Also called Beach Spider Lily, Beach spiderlily
Formerly Hymenocallis americana, Hymenocallis arenaria, Hymenocallis biflora, Hymenocallis disticha, and 20 more
When it flowers
Flowers May to December 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
- Mexico to N. Peru and BrazilKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 71 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
African tulip treeFlowers January to April, when this does not
Artillery plantFlowers January to April, when this does not
Australian Umbrella TreeFlowers January to April, when this does not
Banana passionfruitFlowers January to April, when this does not
Bengal clock vineFlowers January to April, when this does not
Bleeding heart vineFlowers January to April, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Azucena de agua, Lirio de las costas, Lirio araña
- Chinese
- 水鬼蕉, 引水蕉
- Chinese (China)
- 水鬼蕉, 水鬼蕉（蜘蛛兰）
- Japanese
- ササガニユリ
- French
- Lys araignée
- Portuguese
- alho-do-mato
- Russian
- Гименокаллис прибрежный
- Thai
- พลับพลึงตีนเป็ด
- Finnish
- rantalukinlilja
- Slovak
- ismena pobrežná
- root
- Maxtenquilitl
- Simplified Chinese
- 水鬼蕉
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
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Hymenocallis littoralis (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.