Triteleia laxa
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Triteleia laxa is a triplet lily known by several common names, including Ithuriel's spear, common triteleia and grassnut. It is native to California where it is a common wildflower, and it is occasio
Triteleia laxa flower in bloom
Ithuriel's spear, Triteleia laxa, Bay Area, California
Paradise Lost
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the English poet John Milton. The poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and thei
Triteleia laxa
…similar in taste and use as the potato. The most used common name for the species, Ithuriel's spear, is a reference to the angel Ithuriel from Milton's Paradise Lost. Hardiness: USDA 6-10…
Title page of the first edition (1667)
Image extracted from page 362 of The Poetical Works of John Milton. Containing Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained. Samson Agonistes, and his Poems on several occasions, by Milton, John, Michael Burghers (1695).
Milton Dictating to His Daughter, Henry Fuseli (1794)
Gustave Doré, The Heavenly Hosts, c. 1866, illustration to Paradise Lost.