CRINUM LILY (Crinum Asiaticum)
Also known by many other names such as Bakung, Bawang Hutan, Poison Bulb, Seashore Crinum & Spider Lily, the Crinum Lily is a a bulb bearing herb that can grow up to 1.8 m tall with a rosette of leaves at the top of its stem. Its stalkless leaves have leaf blades that are lance shaped, light green and have prominent parallel veins, with many cross veins. The night-fragrant flowers grown in a cluster at the top of a long stalk. Its fleshy fruits are irregularly rounded. It can be found along the forest borders, mangrove forests, sandy shores and water edges. The plant is used medicinally for treating breast infections and wounds, haemorrhoids and inflammation, as a diuretic, as a poultice for closed fractures, contusions, rheumatism and sprains, to aid getting rid of excess water from the body, and for easing childbirth.