Plant Information

Common Name: LILLY – ORANGE RIVER LILLY
Scientific Name: Crinum bulbispermis

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Description

• Perennial
• The Orange River lily is indigenous to South Africa.
• It is a large bulbous plant up to 1m high, which produces attractive grey green gracefully arching leaves during the summer months.
• The Orange River lily bears long stemmed, umbels of large, showy, lily-like, fragrant pink flowers with darker pink stripes from September to December. It can be grown all over South Africa provided it is given adequate water during its growing season.
• It does prefer the wetter parts of the country and does very well if planted in soggy soils.
• This is a good plant for swamp or water gardens.
• The Orange River lily requires full sun and can endure periods of drought during their growing season without adverse effects.
• They also make good container plants.
• In nature they survive summer temperatures of up to 40°C and cold dry winters of -8°C.
• Their leaves usually die back during colder months.
• Once the flowers fall, they are followed by the large attractive pink fruit capsules containing few to many bulbous seeds which germinate as soon as they fall to the ground.
• The large bulb is protected from drying out during the dry winter months by many layers of papery dry bulb scales.

Parts Used

• The bulbs.

Medicinal Uses. It is said that

• The Orange River lily is used in traditional healing for the common cold, rheumatism, varicose veins, reduction of swelling and the treatment of septic sores.
• It is also used during the delivery of babies and to stimulate breast milk.
• Local people believe that this plant protects homes from evil.

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