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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