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agapanthus|ægəˈpænθəs|
[mod.L., f. Gr. ἀγάπη love + ἄνθος flower.]
A genus of South African liliaceous plants, having large umbels of blue, violet or white flowers on a stout scape, of which the bright blue and white species are commonly cultivated for ornament; also, a plant of this genus.
1789W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis I. 414 Agapanthus..African blue Lily. Nat. of the Cape of Good Hope. Cult. 1692, in the Royal Garden at Hampton-court. 1817Botanical Cabinet I. 42 Agapanthus Minor..a native of the Cape of Good Hope... It differs from umbellatus both in leaves and flowers. 1874G. M. Hopkins Jrnl. 2 Oct. (1937) 214 A splendid thick-stemmed carnation-coloured lily called valotta..in the greenhouse next to an agapanthus. 1879W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 448 He made flowering plants huddle round the trunks of trees, agapanthus under plane. 1887Rider Haggard Jess. i. 1 The agapanthus which is so familiar to us in English greenhouses. 1962New Statesman 5 Jan. 28/2 There are one or two places in Cornwall where a much more beautiful plant than mesembryanthemum is colonising uncultivated land by seeding itself freely: agapanthus. |