Vallotan.
/vaˈləʊtə/ Botany.
A genus of amaryllidaceous plants, characterized by rich scarlet flowers, and consisting of but one species, V. purpurea, the Scarborough lily.
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summer fool1597
winter daffodil1615
Jacobaea lily1752
African tulip1759
Jacobean lily1770
haemanthus1771
alstroemeria1775
snowflake1777
chandelier lily1818
hippeastrum1821
clivia1828
Vallota1837
sprekelia1840
Murray lily1847
knight's star1855
Natal lily1855
Loddon lily1882
Peruvian lily1883
spider lily1887
1837 W. Herbert Amaryllidaceæ 133.
1852 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardeners' Dict. 904 A cross-seedling..obtained..from Cyrtanthus obliquus, which no one could distinguish from a Vallota of the same age.
1882 Garden 25 Mar. 206/2 Vallotas may be increased by the quantities of offsets which they produce.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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