fire lily

plural fire lilies

1. The orange lily.
2. A flowering plant of the amaryllis family, in the genus Cyrtanthus, native to southern Africa.
3. Synonym of flame lily (“Gloriosa lily whose petals look like wisps of flame”).

   Gloriosa Lily. (Gloriosa spp.) (Fire Lily, Flame Lily, Creeping Lily, Cat's Claw) […]

   2023 October 10, Calvert Crary, The Encyclopedia of Cut Flowers: What Flowers to Buy, When to Buy Them, and How to Keep Them Alive Longer, Black Dog & Leventhal, →ISBN

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   Red lips like gloriosas […] The more beautiful the gloriosa, the more poisonous […] Love's a gloriosa, […] love so fancy, it's the new vintage, / Fire lilies so orange planted in their hearts […]

   (Can we date this quote?), Janvi Bansal, Shades Of Blossom, Unvoiced Heart, page 56

   Gloriosa (climbing lily, creeping lily, fire lily, flame lily , gloriosa lily, glory lily, superb lily)[…]

   2019 February 14, Michael Allaby, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms: flame lily