Calla lily
സാന്തെഡെഷിയ എത്യോപിക്ക
Zantedeschia aethiopica (L.) Spreng.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 80 cm
- wide
- 46 cm
Araceae
Also called Arum lily, White or common arum lily
Formerly Arodes aethiopicum, Calla aethiopica, Calla ambigua, Colocasia aethiopica, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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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
- S. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 61 cm to 99 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 61 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- 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 (8)
- Chinese
- 海芋, 马蹄莲
- Afrikaans
- Varkblom, wit varkoor
- Asturian
- llinguarina
- Welsh
- lili‘r Pasg
- Xhosa
- intebe
- Simplified Chinese
- 马蹄莲
- Zulu
- ihlukwe
- Malayalam
- സാന്തെഡെഷിയ എത്യോപിക്ക
Where this comes from
- 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
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- 3D model: Zantedeschia aethiopica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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