Galapagos Species Database
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Crinum zeylanicum
ceylon swamplily, milk and wine Lily, pink striped trumpet lily
Bulbs up to 15 cm. in diameter, often with a considerable neck, often propagating vegetatively to form clusters. Flowers style white or greenish white, often tinged red distally (POWO, 2022).
It is has environmental uses and as a poison and a medicine (POWO, 2022).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Asparagales
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Genus
Crinum
Species
zeylanicum
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Amaryllis zeylanica L.
Origin: Introduced - established
Year of first record: 2003
Mode of introduction: Intentional
Introduction Pathway: Intentional
Subpathway: Agriculture/Horticulture
Introduced status: Human dependent
Invasive status: Unlikely to become invasive
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Africa from Guinée south to Namibia (POWO, 2022).
- Tropicos.org. (2017) Database of Missouri Botanical Garden. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. 06 Oct 2017 <http://www.tropicos.org
- Guézou, A. Trueman, M., Buddenhagen, E., Chamorro, S., Guerrero, A.M., Pozo, P., Atkinson, R. (2010) An extensive Alien Plan Inventory from the Inhabited Areas of Galapagos Plos One/ www.plosone.org. Volume 5/ Issue 4/e10276
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"Galapagos Species Database, Crinum zeylanicum", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=1848. Accessed 22 July 2025.