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.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 12 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Andaman Is. | AND | ASIA-TROPICAL |
| Assam | ASS | |
| Bangladesh | BAN | |
| India | IND | |
| Laos | LAO | |
| Myanmar | MYA | |
| Nicobar Is. | NCB | |
| Sri Lanka | SRL | |
| Thailand | THA | |
| Vietnam | VIE | |
| China South-Central | CHC | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| China Southeast | CHS |
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 38 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 10.4 °C | 17.3 °C | 22.1 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 30.5 °C | 31.9 °C | 40.7 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 749 mm | 2,768 mm | 4,195 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 2 mm | 2 mm | 71 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 38 research-grade observations of Crinum latifolium 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 14 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 insignis Ker Gawl.
- Amaryllis littoralis Salisb.
- Amaryllis moluccana Ker Gawl.
- Crinum careyanum Herb.
- Crinum cochinchinense M.Roem.
- Crinum esquiroli H.Lév.
- Crinum insigne (Ker Gawl.) Sweet
- Crinum jemenicum hort. ex Dammann
- Crinum latifolium var. crilae Tram & Khánh
- Crinum longistylum Herb. ex Steud.
- Crinum moluccanum Roxb.
- Crinum ornatum var. latifolium (L.) Herb.
- Crinum speciosum Herb.
- Crinum yemense Hort.Dammann
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- 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.