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Thursday, October 31st, 2024
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Tiger-Flower
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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Known botanically as Tigridia, a genus of bulbous plants (natural order Iridaceae), natives of Mexico, Central America, Peru and Chile. They have long narrow plicately-veined leaves springing from the bulb and a stem bearing two or three scattered smaller leaves and above a few flowers emerging from a spathe. The flowers are spotted (whence the name tiger-flower or tiger-iris) and have free segments springing from a tube; the three large broad outer segments are concavely spreading, the three inner are much smaller and more erect.
T. pavonia (Flower of Tigris) has large flowers with a golden orange, white or yellow ground colour.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Tiger-Flower'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​t/tiger-flower.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Tiger-Flower'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​t/tiger-flower.html. 1910.