Pancratium zeylanicum

Pancratium zeylanicum, commonly known as the Javanese lily^[2]: 46 is a bulbous perennial herb native to Borneo, Java, the Maluku Islands, Sulawesi, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, the Laccadive Islands, and the Philippines.^[3]

Pancratium zeylanicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Amaryllidaceae
Subfamily:	Amaryllidoideae
Genus:	Pancratium
Species:	P. zeylanicum
Binomial name
Pancratium zeylanicum L.[1]

Floral stages over a period of 4 days. See image page for more details

It is sometimes grown as a hothouse container plant. It does not have a rest period unless water is withheld. It propagates by producing offsets and seed.

The pollinator is a moth with a very long proboscis. Flowers are white with narrow tepals and long teeth along the margin of the staminal corona.^[4]