✿Amaryllidaceae · Clivia
Natal Lily
Clivia miniata
Herboutdoor
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Sikkim, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh & more
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Clivia miniata
- Genus
- Clivia
- Family
- Amaryllidaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Sikkim, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Broad strap-like, dark greenrecorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Basal
Characters marked “recorded” are for Natal Lily itself; the rest are typical of the Amaryllidaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Orangerecorded
- Flower arrangement
- UmbelrecordedFlower stalks all radiate from a single point, like umbrella ribs.“The showy, funnel-shaped flowers are produced in an umbel-shaped inflorescence, colored red, orange or yellow, sometimes with a faint, but very sweet perfume.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Fruit type
- BerryrecordedA fleshy fruit with seeds embedded directly in the pulp, no central stone.“The fruit is a bright-red spherical berry to 5 cm (2 in) in diameter, producing one to a few seeds.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Umbel
- Fruit
- Capsule
Characters marked “recorded” are for Natal Lily itself; the rest are typical of the Amaryllidaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Natal Lily
Natal Lily (Clivia miniata) belongs to the Amaryllidaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Sikkim, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and 3 other states.
Uses
Locally it is planted as an ornamental.
Botanical family
Amaryllidaceae
Amaryllis Family
Natal Lily belongs to the Amaryllidaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
Explore the Amaryllidaceae family →Snap it. Know it.
Point your camera at Natal Lily or any plant and SASYA identifies it instantly — on-device, offline, and private.