Common name: Giant Spider Lily, {Nagadamani, Sudarshan} (Hindi), Modo lei (Manipuri), விஷமூங்கில் Visamungil (Tamil), Pulattali (Malayalam)
Botanical name: Crinum amabile Family: Amaryllidaceae (Nargis family)
The presence of giant spider lily cannot be ignored in any garden. Dark green
strap-like leaves may be more than 3 feet long by 4 inches wide. Flowers
are shaped like tubes that flair open into a crown of narrow petals. The
petals are white with a pink longitudinal stripe on the underside.
Red and pink fragrant flowers sit atop a succulent, cylindrical flower stalk
that is 1 to 3 feet tall. A 6-inch-long floral tube bears 6 petals and sepals,
and rosy stamens from the throat of this tube. These striking, fragrant
flowers appear most abundantly in the spring,summer and fall seasons of the
year.
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