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• Scilla peruviana
  |common_name=Portuguese Squill, Cuban lily, Hyacinth-of-Peru |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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• Juanulloa
  ...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
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• Adiantum peruvianum
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia |habit_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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• Nautilocalyx
  ...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.
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• Tropaeolum tuberosum
  |height_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia |width_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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• Nicandra physalodes
  |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 [
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• Myroxylon
  ...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
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• Embothrium
  ...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
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• Ilex tarapotina
  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
• Monolena
  ...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
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• Begonia rosaeflora
  ...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
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• Tropaeolum peregrinum
  |name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia |height_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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• Mirabilis jalapa
  |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
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• Odontoglossum cristatum
  ...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
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• Nolana humifusa subsp. humifusa
  ...-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
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• Pouteria caimito
  ...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 -->
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• Warrea
  ...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 -->
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• Krameria
  ...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
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• Oxalis ortgiesii
  ...forked cymes on long axillary peduncles, small, yellow with deeper veins. Peru. *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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• Blumenbachia
  ...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
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