Meaning of slime lily | Babel Free

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Any plant of the genus Albuca, mainly occurring in Africa.

Examples

“Bulbous plants are not particularly common along the coast, but the bright scarlet-flowered Rat's-Tail Babiana (Babiana ringens) is always seen in this sandy bush country which also abounds with blue- and white-flowered Hottentot Nut (Moraea fugax), and the strange-looking slime lilies, of which the Sandveld Slime Lily (Albuca fragrans) and Common Slime Lily (A . flaccida) are most common.”

“Distinguished from other slimelilies by the conspicuous warts at the base of the stem.”

“Flowers of the African hyacinth genus Albuca (slime lilies) have long intrigued plant reproductive biologists on account of their tightly closed inner tepals with apices covered in papillae.”

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