slime lily

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English[edit]

a slime lily, Albuca amoena

Noun[edit]

slime lily (plural slime lilies)

  1. Any plant of the genus Albuca, mainly occurring in Africa.
    • 2000, Peter Goldblatt, Wildflowers of the Fairest Cape: The Wildflowers of the Western Cape, South Africa:
      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.
    • 2008, John C. Manning, Namaqualand:
      Distinguished from other slimelilies by the conspicuous warts at the base of the stem.
    • 2012 August 1, SD Johnson, “Pollination function transferred: modified tepals of Albuca (Hyacinthaceae) serve as secondary stigmas”, in Annals of Botany, volume 110, number 3, page 565:
      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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