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Definition of Sparaxis tricolor
1. Noun. A showy often-cultivated plant with tawny yellow often purple-spotted flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sparaxis Tricolor
Literary usage of Sparaxis tricolor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulb Gardening by Mary Hampden (1922)
"4 to 5 feet high on thin wiry stems in autumn, while sparaxis tricolor is not
... Pot Sparaxis bulbs (sparaxis tricolor and any other of the lesser kinds) ..."
2. Journal of Science and the Arts by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1817)
"799 of Curtis's Botanical Magazine. sparaxis tricolor. HK Ixia tricolor. 129.
(xia capillaris. /3. BM ' Ixia rapunculoides. 431. This variety has been left ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1849)
"This is certainly the best Ixia I have ever seen; it is a seedling of I. squalida,
impregnated with I. tricolor (or maybe sparaxis tricolor. ..."
4. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1839)
"sparaxis tricolor is a larger flower than Tritonia:—dark orange, with a black,
halberd-shaped spot at the base of each segment of the perianth, ..."
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