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Lilium superbum is a species of true lily native to the eastern and central regions of North America. [3] [4] [5] Common names include Turk's cap lily, [3] turban lily, [4] swamp lily, [6] lily royal, [6] or American tiger lily.
Turk's cap is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Lilium martagon, a lily species native to a wide area from central Europe east to Mongolia and Korea; Lilium michauxii, a lily species native to southeastern North America; Lilium superbum, a lily species native to eastern and central regions of North America
The name Turk's cap lily, also applied to a number of other species, comes from the characteristic reflexed shape of the petals. [15] The specific epithet martagon is of uncertain origin. [ 16 ] It has been suggested by one scholar (J.W. Redhouse (1892), that the word is of Ottoman Turkish origin, as mārtağān - a special kind of turban ...
Turk's cap lily is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Lilium martagon, a species native to a wide area from central Europe east to Mongolia and Korea; Lilium michauxii, a species native to southeastern North America; Lilium superbum, a species native to eastern and central regions of North America
Melocactus (melon cactus), also known as the Turk's head cactus, Turk's cap cactus, or Pope's head cactus, is a genus of cactus with about 30–40 species.They are native to the Caribbean, western Mexico through Central America to northern South America, with some species along the Andes down to southern Peru, and a concentration of species in northeastern Brazil.
Common names for species in this genus include Turk's cap mallow, wax mallow, sleeping hibiscus, and mazapan. It belongs to a group of genera that differ from the closely related Hibiscus in possessing a fruit divided into 5 separate parts (a schizocarp ), and having a style surmounted by 10, rather than 5, capitate or capitellate stigmas .
The specific name, arboreus, refers to the tree-like appearance of a mature plant. It is now popular in cultivation [ 4 ] and goes by many English names including wax mallow , Turk's cap (mallow), Turk's turban , sleeping hibiscus , manzanilla , manzanita (de pollo), ladies teardrop and Scotchman's purse ; many of these common names refer to ...
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