any plant of the tuberous perennial liliaceous genus Alstroemeria, originally S American, grown for their brightly coloured orchid-like flowers
Also called: Peruvian lily
Word origin
named by Linnaeus for his friend Baron Klas von Alstroemer
Examples of 'alstroemeria' in a sentence
alstroemeria
Also, the results showed that the using salicylic acid increased significantly the vase life cut alstroemeria flowers, over control.
Elnaz SOLEIMANY-FARD, Khodayar HEMMATI, Ahmad KHALIGHI 2013, 'Improving the Keeping Quality and Vase Life of Cut Alstroemeria Flowers by Pre andPost-harvest Salicylic Acid Treatments', Notulae Scientia Biologicaehttp://notulaebiologicae.ro/index.php/nsb/article/view/9095. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)