Picotee describes
flower
A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). The biological function of a flower is to facilitate reproduction, usually by providing a mechani ...
s whose edge is a different colour than the flower's base colour. The word originates from the
French ''picoté'', meaning 'marked with points'.
[The Oxford Dictionary of English, page 1331. Oxford University Press, 2005.]
Examples
Image:Amaryllis fl.jpg, Hippeastrum
''Hippeastrum'' () is a genus of about 90 species and over 600 hybrids and cultivars of perennial herbaceous bulbous plants. They generally have large fleshy bulbs and tall broad leaves, generally evergreen, and large red or purple flowers. ...
Image:Lilium michiganense 2.jpg, Lilium
''Lilium'' () is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large prominent flowers. They are the true lilies. Lilies are a group of flowering plants which are important in culture and literature in much of the world. M ...
Image:Hibicus0051.JPG, Chinese hibiscus
''Hibiscus rosa-sinensis'', known colloquially as Chinese hibiscus, China rose, Hawaiian hibiscus, rose mallow and shoeblack plant, is a species of tropical hibiscus, a flowering plant in the Hibisceae tribe of the family Malvaceae. It is wide ...
Image:Ind_pntbrush.jpg, Castilleja
''Castilleja'', commonly known as paintbrush, Indian paintbrush, or prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, northern Asia, and one ...
Image:RhododendronRoosevelt.jpg, Rhododendron 'President Roosevelt'
''Rhododendron'' 'President Roosevelt' is a popular cultivar of '' Rhododendron'' with striking variegated leaves and trusses of bright red flowers that fade to white in the centre. It is named after the 26th president of the United States, Theod ...
Image:Gaillardia aristata2.jpg, Gaillardia
''Gaillardia'' (common name blanket flower) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to North and South America. It was named after Maître Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate who was an enthusias ...
References
Flowers
Plant morphology
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