Picotee is a variety of carnation where the edge is a different colour than the flower's base colour.http://www.daylilies.org/ahs_dictionary/picotee.html Daily Dictionary entry for picotee (URL accessed June 16, 2006) The word originates from the French picoté, meaning 'marked with points'.The Oxford Dictionary of English, page 1331. Oxford University Press, 2005.