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Gloriosa superba   Listen
Gloriosa superba

noun
1.
Any plant of the genus Gloriosa of tropical Africa and Asia; a perennial herb climbing by means of tendrils at leaf tips having showy yellow to red or purple flowers; all parts are poisonous.  Synonyms: climbing lily, creeping lily, gloriosa, glory lily.






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"Gloriosa superba" Quotes from Famous Books



... either covered with coarse grass or are altogether barren. In the lower grounds are a variety of weedy bushes, and open waste places are covered everywhere with a nettle-like wild mint. Here is found the beautiful crown lily, Gloriosa superba, winding among the bushes, and displaying its magnificent blossoms in great profusion. A wild vine also occurs, bearing great irregular bunches of hairy grapes of a coarse but very luscious flavour. In some of the valleys where the vegetation ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... Gloriosa superba.—Shake out the roots, and repot in good fibrous loam, with a sprinkling of sand, and place them in bottom heat. No water to be applied to the tubers until ...
— In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year • William Keane

... a borage, Trichodesma Indicum, a balsam, Impatiens balsamina, familiar in English gardens, the beautiful delicate little blue Evolvulus alsinoides, the showy purple convolvulus, Ipomaea hederacea, and a curious lily, Gloriosa superba. ...
— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir • Sir James McCrone Douie



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