Meanings of late-flowering in English

It is a late-flowering annual that needs plenty of time to develop.

This is a very late-flowering species, and remarkable for its Tansy-like foliage.

Is a late-flowering Venus Williams primed to beat her sister at Wimbledon?

It has simply been a privilege to watch that late-flowering brilliance.

From this point the path rises, and the barren hillside is a-bloom with late-flowering myrtles.

Where many earlier-flowering plants will now be tired, late-flowering perennials will still be looking smart.

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It is the latest of a late-flowering genus.

It is possible to have early-flowering and late-flowering kinds follow each other, lengthening the period of display.

Chad Harbach's debut novel of baseball, friendship and late-flowering love has been a great success in America.

More and more smart-but-casual bistros are opening up, providing a sustained burst of growth in a late-flowering restaurant culture.

This is one of our finest late-flowering plants; it has, moreover, a tropical appearance, which renders it very attractive.

You know how you read those stories from time to time about what the papers like to call "late-flowering love"?

The clematis to choose would be a late-flowering one such as Clematis xjackmanii, C. x eriostemon or a form of Clematis viticella.

The late-flowering phenotype of H51 compared to Landsberg erecta was due to alleles conferring late flowering at only two of the five loci.

It sheltered the humanism of Erasmus and the late-flowering English Renaissance, and Christian Platonism has nowhere had a more flourishing record than in Protestant Britain.