lavatera

/ ˌlævəˈtɪərə /

noun

1. any plant of the genus Lavatera, closely resembling mallow and grown for their purple, white, or rose-coloured flowers: family Malvaceae

Word History and Origins

Origin of lavatera¹

named after the two brothers Lavater, 18th-century Swiss doctors and naturalists

Example Sentences

Lavatera trimestris: hardy, 3 ft., pale-rose, showy malvaceous flowers.

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In the garden we notice a lovely specimen of the Lavatera arborea, or tree-mallow, covered with hundreds of white and purple blossoms.

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No109 Our plant is undoubtedly the Spanish blush Mallow of Parkinson, and the Lavatera althææfolia of Miller according to the former, it is a native of Spain, according to the latter, of Syria.

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They proclaimed her a heroine; they brought a sort of sedan chair, borne, not by the common cabbage butterflies who usually carried them, but by a Chrysophanus hypophlaeas and a Lavatera assurgentiflora.

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Lavatera.—As the Mallows do not transplant well it is desirable to sow in the flowering positions.

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