Glory Lily

Project Profile

Gloriosa is a genus of five or six species in the plant family Colchicaceae.
Gloriosa superba is a striking tuberous climbing plant with brilliant wavy-edged yellow and red flowers.
They have showy flowers, distinctive because of their pronouncedly reflexed
petals, like a Turk’s cap lily, ranging in colour from a greenish-yellow through yellow, orange, red and sometimes even a deep pinkish-red.
The plant grows in sandy-loam soil in the mixed deciduous forests in sunny positions. It is very tolerant of nutrient-poor soils.
It occurs in thickets, forest edges and boundaries of cultivated areas in warm countries up to a height of 2530m.
In Ayurveda and Yunani systems of medicine it is a reputed medicine. According to
Ayurveda, tuber is pungent, bitter, acrid, heating, anthemirtic, laxative, alexiteric, abortifacient, and useful in ulcers, leprosy, piles, iflommations, abdominal pains, itching and thirst.
G. superba is the national flower of Zimbabwe, and was the national flower of Rhodesia.It is also the state flower of Tamil Nadu state in India .

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Cultivation

Kalihari propagation
Micropropagation of Gloriosa superba L. Through High Frequency Shoot Proliferation
Propagating from seed
Significance of sequential opening of flowers in Gloriosa superba L.
Gloriosa superba cultivation
Commercial Gloriosa Lily growing information

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Process

The application of ethanol- extracted Gloriosa supersa for metaphase chromosome preparation in Mosquitos
Optimization of DNA isolation and PCR protocol for RAPD analysis of selected medicinal and aromatic plants of conservation concern from Peninsular India
Properties of Gloriosa superba
Plant Products as Antimicrobial Agents
Biological Screening of Medicinal Plants Collected from Eastern Ghats of India Using Artemia salina

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