About Secret Night Squill
Drimia indica is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is a bulbous geophyte native to the Indian subcontinent and Indochina.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Drimia indica
- Genus
- Drimia
- Family
- LILIACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Dry deciduous forests and also in the plains
- Distribution
- India, Myanmar, Nepal, Tropical Africa
- Flowering & fruiting
- December-May
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Hindi
- बन प्याज ban piaj, जंगली कांदा jungli kanda, जंगली प्याज jungli piaj
- Nepali
- बन प्याज ban pyaaj
- Bengali
- জংলি পিয়াজ jongali piyaz, জংলি পিয়াজ
- Tamil
- ஆசுக்காயம் acukkayam, நரிவெங்காயம் nari-venkayam, நாயுள்ளி nay-ulli
- Telugu
- నక్క nakka
- Kannada
- ಬಿಳಿ ಈರುಳ್ಳಿ bili eerulli, ಕಾಡು ಬೆಳ್ಳುಳ್ಳಿ kaadu bellulli, ಕಾಡೀರುಳ್ಳಿ kaadirulli
- Malayalam
- കാട്ടുള്ളി kaattulli, കാൻതെങ്ങ kaanthenga, നരിവെങ്കായം narivenkayam
- Marathi
- रान कांदा ran kanda
Botanical family
Liliaceae
Lily Family
Secret Night Squill belongs to the Liliaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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