Crinum erubescensL.f.

WFO wfo-0000764495 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Crinum erubescens, photographed by Kai Squires
fig. a Kai Squires, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-05 / obs. 195145987
Crinum erubescens, photographed by Seig
fig. b Seig, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103084766
Crinum erubescens, photographed by Lena Struwe
fig. c Lena Struwe, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 1920587
Crinum erubescens, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. d Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83199538
Crinum erubescens, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. e Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83199496
Crinum erubescens, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. f Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83199515
Crinum erubescens, photographed by Eduardo Chacón Madrigal
fig. g Eduardo Chacón Madrigal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 83199558
Crinum erubescens, photographed by Kai Squires
fig. h Kai Squires, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195145934

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Crinum erubescens is native: Mexico Central, Mexico Southwest, Belize, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela Mexico CentralMexico SouthwestBelizeBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SoutheastColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruSurinameVenezuela
Native distribution of Crinum erubescens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Central MXC NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 79 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 18.4 °C 22.9 °C 24.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 28.0 °C 30.0 °C 34.5 °C
Annual rainfall 1,537 mm 3,030 mm 4,685 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 17 mm 239 mm 724 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 79 research-grade observations of Crinum erubescens that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 33 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Amaryllis procera Salisb.
  • Crinum attenuatum Willd. ex Schult.f.
  • Crinum commelinianum Herb.
  • Crinum commelyni Jacq.
  • Crinum corantinum Herb. ex Steud.
  • Crinum corantynum M.Roem.
  • Crinum crucibulum D.Dietr.
  • Crinum cruentum [Ker-Gawl.]
  • Crinum cruentum var. albidum Kunth
  • Crinum dieterichii Schult.
  • Crinum erubescens var. brasiliense Herb.
  • Crinum erubescens var. caraccense Herb.
  • Crinum erubescens var. corantinum Herb.
  • Crinum erubescens var. majus Herb.
  • Crinum erubescens var. mexicanum M.Roem.
  • Crinum erubescens var. minus Herb.
  • Crinum erubescens var. octoflorum Herb.
  • Crinum erubescens var. rubrilimbum Herb.
  • Crinum gordonianum M.Roem.
  • Crinum guianense M.Roem.
  • Crinum inodorum Tausch
  • Crinum lanceanum Willd. ex M.Roem.
  • Crinum lancei Herb. ex Sweet
  • Crinum lindleyanum Schult.f. ex Seub.

and 9 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.