Pancratium zeylanicum explained

Pancratium zeylanicum, commonly known as the Javanese lily[1] is a bulbous perennial herb native to Borneo, Java, the Maluku Islands, Sulawesi, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, the Laccadive Islands, and the Philippines.[2]

It is sometimes grown as a hothouse container plant. It does not have a rest period unless water is withheld. It propagates by producing offsets and seed.

The pollinator is a moth with a very long proboscis. Flowers are white with narrow tepals and long teeth along the margin of the staminal corona.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Rumpf, Georg Eberhard . 2003 . Rumphius' Orchids: Orchid Texts from the Ambonese Herbal . en . Yale University Press . 9780300129311.
  2. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358309#page/302/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 290