kniphofia

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers

From the genus name.

The tall clumps of Euphorbias gave the red landscape a sinister look, for their articulated branches looked like a conjunction of gigantic scorpions, bodies meeting together and stinging tails erected in the air; the fleshy-leaved aloes of deep bottle-green sent up blood-red stalks of blood-red tubular flowers; on the higher ground there were many rust-red or red-lead-coloured "red-hot pokers"--what the initiated call Kniphofias. — The Man Who Did the Right Thing: A Romance, Harry Johnston

tritoma, flame flower, flame-flower, flameflower

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