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  • |common_name=Portuguese Squill, Cuban lily, Hyacinth-of-Peru |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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  • ...r and tubular, enlarging upward, and with a limb of 5 short rounded segms. Peru, where it is said to be epiphytic; but said to thrive well in a warmhouse i *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
    2 KB (324 words) - 08:17, 29 March 2010
  • |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia |habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
    2 KB (290 words) - 19:36, 12 November 2010
  • ...pearance of Episcea, but differ in having ovules on the inner surface only of the placental plates rather than on both surfaces. They are distinguished f ...ally narrowed to base, nearly glabrous above, minutely puberulous beneath. Peru. B.M. 8519.
    2 KB (313 words) - 19:58, 9 January 2010
  • |height_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia |width_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
    4 KB (552 words) - 15:00, 4 May 2010
  • |common_name=Apple of Peru, shoo-fly plant ...mmon names '''Apple of Peru''' and '''shoo-fly plant'''. It is native to [[Peru]], and it is known elsewhere as an [[introduced species]] and sometimes a [
    4 KB (574 words) - 00:13, 21 February 2010
  • ...estern world as the source for [[balsam of Peru]] and [[Tolu balsam|balsam of Tolu]]. ...sam Tree (but not the source of Balsam of Peru, which is from M. Pereirae. of San Salvador). Beautiful tree: Ifts. 9-13, ovate-oblong, alternate and emar
    3 KB (407 words) - 21:38, 8 January 2010
  • ...representing a third of its length; anthers imbedded in the concave apices of the perianth-lobes; pistil with an elongated cylindrical ovary and long-exs ...America]], in [[Chile]] and adjacent western [[Argentina]] and southern [[Peru]]; the genus occurs as far south as [[Tierra del Fuego]]. Common names incl
    4 KB (575 words) - 15:40, 21 September 2009
  • Ilex tarapotina is used in northern Peru to make a special type of “Maté” known as “Té O’ Maté” which is said to produce unknown <!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 08
    983 bytes (133 words) - 01:06, 31 May 2010
  • ...ed of clusters of short thick rhizomes, prominently scarred by the falling of the lvs., and the fls. are numerous, and resemble a primrose about 1 in. ac *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
    2 KB (226 words) - 23:53, 8 January 2010
  • ...rce in 1878, and apparently an important factor in subsequent garden forms of the same color. The species itself is probably not now in cult. *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
    1 KB (201 words) - 15:16, 2 February 2010
  • |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia |height_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
    4 KB (526 words) - 14:49, 4 May 2010
  • |common_name=Four o'clock, Marvel of Peru ...is a useful plant for growing in a hedge (plants 1 ft. apart) at the rear of the fl.-garden. Sometimes it comes up in the spring from self-sown seeds. E
    4 KB (605 words) - 11:05, 7 January 2010
  • ...the labellum cross each other like the bristles on the nearly closed leaf of Dionaea muscipula. *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
    2 KB (212 words) - 15:18, 20 February 2010
  • ...-seeded. Perhaps this should be united with the preceding; it is native to Peru. *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
    1 KB (177 words) - 16:35, 22 February 2010
  • ...ive of Peru, but cult, in other parts of S. Amer., especially on the coast of Brazil. ...for a species (rather than genus), or perhaps Varieties if there is a mix of cultivars, species, hybrids, etc -->
    2 KB (248 words) - 10:29, 14 December 2009
  • ...column without appendages; pollinia 4, with a narrow stipe. —Two species, Peru and Colombia. They require the same treatment as phaius. ...for a species (rather than genus), or perhaps Varieties if there is a mix of cultivars, species, hybrids, etc -->
    2 KB (274 words) - 11:59, 22 November 2009
  • ...hairy: fls. bright scarlet. This and other species supply the rhatany root of apothecaries. L.H.B. *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
    2 KB (262 words) - 12:20, 30 March 2010
  • ...forked cymes on long axillary peduncles, small, yellow with deeper veins. Peru. *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
    1 KB (156 words) - 23:00, 25 February 2010
  • ...d Mentzelia (prairie lilies), not cult, in Amer. because of their covering of stinging hairs. The fls. are odd and pretty, axillary, solitary and bractea ...¼ in. long, cup-shaped, green; stamens in 5 bundles, with long filaments. Peru. B. insignis. Schrad. St. climbing, 4-sided: petals white, unguiculate. B.M
    2 KB (309 words) - 10:04, 10 February 2010

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