Picotee describes
flower
Flowers, also known as blooms and blossoms, are the reproductive structures of flowering plants ( angiosperms). Typically, they are structured in four circular levels, called whorls, around the end of a stalk. These whorls include: calyx, m ...
s whose edge is a different colour from 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 116 species, and over 600 Hybrid (biology), hybrids and cultivars, of perennial plant, perennial, herbaceous plant, herbaceous and bulbous plants, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, ...
Image:Lilium michiganense 2.jpg, Lilium
''Lilium'' ( ) is a genus of Herbaceous plant, herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large and often prominent flowers. Lilies are a group of flowering plants which are important in culture and literature in much of the world ...
Image:Hibicus0051.JPG, Chinese hibiscus
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**Han Chinese, East Asian ethnic group native to China.
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic ...
Image:Ind_pntbrush.jpg, Castilleja
''Castilleja'', commonly known as paintbrush, Indian paintbrush, or prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of Annual plant, annual and Perennial plant, perennial mostly herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska sout ...
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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