Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Crinum pedunculatum

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, Nowra

Fruit and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra

Common name

Swamp lily, River lily, Stream lily

Family

Amaryllidaceae

Where found

Along streams and in swamps. Sydney area. Coastal north of Batemans Bay.

Notes

Perennial herb. ‘Stem’ to 0.45 m tall. Flower stalk to 1.5 m tall. Leaves clustered at the top of the 'stem', usually 50–150 cm long, 50–150 mm wide, margins smooth; upper leaves erect, the lower leaves spreading. Flowers scented. Flowers tubular, tube green, 40–100 mm long, with 6 white lobes each 40–80 mm long. Flowers in a 10–40-flowered umbel. Flowers summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Crinum~pedunculatum (accessed 8 January, 2021)