funkia
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of funkia
1830–40; < New Latin; named after C. H. Funck (died 1839), German botanist; -ia
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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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In the large flower border, tall, well-shaped spikes of a good pink one look well shooting up through and between a wide-spreading patch of glaucous foliage of the smaller Yuccas, Tritoma caulescens, Iris pallida, and Funkia Sieboldi, while scarlet and salmon-coloured kinds are among groups of P�onies that flowered in June, whose leaves are now taking a fine reddish colouring.
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