(from the article `Ornithogalum`) Star-of-Bethlehem (O. umbellatum), a common garden ornamental, has white-marked leaves and white star-shaped flowers. There is a wide green band on ...
Star of Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum) is a plant of the order Liliaceae. It has a scaly bulb about two and a half centimetres across and flowers in May, bearing a corymb of satiny white and greenish flowers about three centimetres across. The leaves are long and narrow with a white stripe down the centre.
[n] - any of several perennial plants of the genus Ornithogalum native to the Mediterranean and having star-shaped flowers
noun any of several perennial plants of the genus Ornithogalum native to the Mediterranean and having star-shaped flowers
the star that guided the Magi to the manger of the infant Jesus in Bethlehem. Matt. 2:1–10.