puschkinia
(pʊʃˈkɪnɪə)
[mod.L. (J. M. F. Adams 1805, in Nova Acta Acad. Petropolitanæ XIV. 164), f. the name of Apollos Mussin-Puschkin (d. 1805), Russian chemist and plant collector + -ia1.]
A small spring-flowering bulbous plant of the genus so called, belonging to the family Liliaceæ, and bearing spikes of blue or white cup-shaped flowers; also called the striped squill.
| 1820 Curtis's Bot. Mag. XLVIII. 2244 (heading) Squil⁓like Puschkinia. 1914 G. Jekyll Colour Schemes for Flower Garden (ed. 3) 6 The colour scheme begins with the pink of Megasea ligulata..and later the blue-white of Puschkinia. 1925 A. J. MacSelf Bulb Gardening xi. 197 The flowers of Puschkinia are blue and white, arranged in a short close-set spike on a stalk only a few inches long. 1959 Times 22 Aug. 9/4 Most of the other small bulbs—muscari, chionodoxas, puschkinias—can be grown in⁓doors. 1974 H. G. W. Fogg Compl. Handbk. Bulbs vii. 122/2 As long as they are not forced, puschkinias can be grown indoors like crocuses. |