PlantFiles: Milk and Wine Lily
Crinum zeylanicum

Dave's garden stated that
Milk and Wine crinum has synonyms as follows :

Synonym:Amaryllis zeylanicum
Synonym:Crinum latifolium
Synonym:Crinum ornatum

I do not aggree. Crinum latifolum and Milk and Wine lily are two different crinums .
- Flowers might look alike, but flowers of the Milk and Wine are 4 times bigger than the flowers of the crinum latifolium .
- Bulbs of the Milk and Wine lily are huge , when bulbs of the crinum latifolium look like shallots

In India this plant is known as sudarshana in Hindi & sanskrit language. this plant has tremendous medicinal properties. The roots and the leafes are used in medicine.it is used as a febrifuge & used in skin disorder & inflammations.Also used as an analgesic.
from Dr.subhransu sekhar mishra
medical research scientist
Next Genaration technology

" Milk and Wine Lily, is an elegant lily with natural timer set to it, here in my garden, (Lahore - Pakistan), I have a few hundreds of them and I have two varieties of it, one is the small stem which bears two flowers and the other is a double " four flower with longer stem, they shed flowers for a whole month.

Late July monsoon rain brings first shedding, some two three hundred stalks sprout, and bloom in 3 nights, the bulb multiplies in many baby bulbs so in february its good for them to take them out from the soil and replant them, so to scatter them and detach small bulbs from the parent one, clipping their leaves makes them healthy and so makes the flower bigger and healthier.

There is an amazing season related phenomenon, a very beautiful white spider with pink tiger like stripes developes in them, as the flower bed blooms, I have awaited it this season but could not snap it, lets hope the coming season i might snap it and upload the image.

The spider is very shy, about half an inch in size. Makes small cobwebs amongst the flowers, it lives in the flower bell, also if we cut the flowers and put them in water vase, they stay fresh for a week, filling the indoors with a very light sweet fragrance.

We all have our idea of a cherished plant. This one is cherished because it came to me from my grandmother (who died in 1957) through my aunt, and to me. It is a Very Old heirloom pass-along plant.

It grows easily and is beautiful in my north MS garden.

I recommend it to anyone who loves beauty, fragrance, and dependability.

Easy to grow and give us a profusion of bloom during June.Ours grow in sandy soil and get no special attention .
The description above gives the stripe color as scarlet.I would describe it as medium to dark pink.

Very pretty lily! I have a large clump of them that were in the yard when I bought the house. There are other around the neighborhood too. The red is not at deep as the picture here, but they just keep on keeping on without my doing anything. My definition of a perfect plant! The flowers on their stalks are at least 3'-4' tall. The leaves are very long, at least 3'. The seed pods are rather large, about 1" in diameter at least, and lots of them. I've just let them fall, and I think they are coming up from the seeds too, though I wouldn't swear to it.

Beautiful white blooms with pink striping in summer. Crinum lilies have graced southern gardens for years. This one has a spicy sweet scent.

Will grow in moist well drained or seasonally wet soil at waters edge.

Protect from cold weather by mulching.

Two schools of thought on depth to plant. One is plant to neck of bulb, the other is plant very deep.
Ours never bloomed until I dug them up and planted them deep. (zone 7) We have a profusion of flowers the whole month of June.