Definition of Bessera elegans

1. Noun. Half-hardy Mexican herb cultivated for its drooping terminal umbels of showy red-and-white flowers.

Exact synonyms: Coral Drops
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Bessera, Genus Bessera

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bessera Elegans

Besnoitia tarandi
Besnoitiidae
Bess
Bessarabia
Bessarabian
Bessarabians
Bessel
Bessel function
Bessel functions
Bessemer
Bessemer converter
Bessemer process
Bessemer steel
Bessemer steels
Bessera
Bessera elegans (current term)
Besserwisser
Besseya
Besseya alpina
Bessie
Bessie Smith
Bessy
Bessy cerca
Best
Best's carmine stain
Best's disease
Best and Greatest
Besòs
Beta
Beta Canis Majoris

Literary usage of Bessera elegans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulbs and Tuberous-rooted Plants: Their History, Description, Methods of by Charles Linnaeus Allen (1905)
"... the bulbs should be planted alternately with the Bessera elegans (Page 42), about four inches apart each way; the effect produced by the contrast of ..."

2. Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.: Horticultural Hall by Massachusetts Horticultural Society, W.D. Ticknor & Co, James Englebert Teschemacher (1885)
"Bessera elegans. With him it barely flowered the middle of October. It was so extensively advertised by the New York florists that he thought it must do ..."

3. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1883)
"BesSERA elegans.—A charming little Mexican bulbous plant, with slender graceful flower stems about a foot in height, and carrying umbels of small ..."

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