Definition of Nierembergia frutescens

1. Noun. Shrubby Chilean herb having bluish-white tubular flowers used as an ornamental.

Exact synonyms: Tall Cupflower
Group relationships: Genus Nierembergia
Generic synonyms: Cupflower, Nierembergia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nierembergia Frutescens

Nidularia
Nidulariaceae
Nidulariales
Nidwalden
Niebuhr
Nieden's syndrome
Niels Abel
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik Abel
Niels Henrik David Bohr
Nielson
Niemann's splenomegaly
Niemann-Pick cell
Niemann-Pick disease
Niemann disease
Nierembergia frutescens
Nierembergia repens
Nierembergia rivularis
Nietzsche
Nietzschean
Nietzscheans
Niewenglowski rays
Nifong
Nifonged
Nifonging
Nifongs
Nigel
Nigel no friends
Nigella
Nigella damascena

Literary usage of Nierembergia frutescens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hardy Flowers: Descriptions of Upwards of Thirteen Hundred of the Most by William Robinson (1878)
"The rock-garden nierembergia frutescens (Tall K.) —A very elegant plant, naturally of somewhat shrubby habit, but with us usually cut down by frosts in ..."

2. Alpines and Bog-plants by Reginald John Farrer (1908)
"white, with darker veining and a purple eye—delicate as nierembergia frutescens and entrancing as Geranium ..."

3. Annales des sciences naturelles by Adolphe Brongniart, Antoine Guillemin, Joseph Decaisne, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Julien Costantin, Pierre Allorge, Louis Blaringhem (1834)
"nierembergia frutescens Dur. — Nous n'avons pas pu suivre le développement du tégument séminal de cette espèce. Adulti! et en coupe transversale, ..."

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