funkia

[ fuhng-kee-uh, foong- ]

noun

1. plantain lily.

Word History and Origins

Origin of funkia¹

1830–40; < New Latin; named after C. H. Funck (died 1839), German botanist; -ia

Example Sentences

Funkia.—Pretty liliaceous plants, with simple conspicuously longitudinal-ribbed leaves, the racemose flowers funnel-shaped and deflexed.

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Funkia, funk′i-a, n. a genus of Liliace� allied to the day lilies, native to China.

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FUNKIA, in botany, a genus of rather handsome, hardy, herbaceous plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, and natives of China and Japan.

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Only white and pale-yellow flowers are grouped with this, and pale, fresh-looking foliage of maize and Funkia.

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Heuchera Richardsoni is another good front-edge plant; and when we come to the blue and pale-yellow group there is a planting of Funkia grandiflora, whose fresh-looking pale-green leaves are delightful with the brilliant light yellow of Calceolaria amplexicaulis, and the farther-back planting of pale-blue Delphinium, Mullein, and sulphur Sunflower; while the same colour of foliage is repeated in the fresh green of the Indian Corn.

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