Lexic.us

Definition of Potato tree

1. Noun. South American shrub or small tree widely cultivated in the tropics; not a true potato.

2. Noun. Hardy climbing shrub of Chile grown as an ornamental for its fragrant flowers; not a true potato.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Potato Tree

potato mosaic potato moth potato murrain potato nose potato onion potato pancake potato peel potato peelings potato race potato salad

potato salads potato scab bacteria potato skin potato starch potato starches potato tree (current term) potato tuber moth potato tuberworm potato vine potato wart

potato wart fungus potato worm potato yellow-dwarf virus potato yellow dwarf potatobug potatobugs potatoe potatoes potatoey potatolike

Literary usage of Potato tree

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

1. Two Happy Years in Ceylon by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1893)
"This pyramid of fire stood close to a large 'potato-tree,'3 so called because its blossoms are exactly like those of our common potato, only thrice their ..."

2. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1900)
"The potato tree (S. crispum), a native of Chili, is the only ornamental Solanum hardy enough for the open air. In the south and in coast districts it may be ..."

3. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson, William Robinson, F. L. S. (1906)
"This grows strongly in sheltered southern gardens. Increase by- suckers. Guiana. S. CRISPUM (potato tree) reaches 15 to 20 3 к ..."

4. The English Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground: Design and Arrangement Shown by William Robinson (1899)
"Solanum (potato tree).—A family of many species that are graceful when yoang and ... The potato tree (S. crispum), a native of Chili, is the only ornamental ..."

5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1847)
"... true potato-tree, fantastic, doubtless, in its import, but possessing, as a whole, the same individuality ..."

6. A Handbook of Tropical Gardening and Planting, with Special Reference to Ceylon by Hugh Fraser Macmillan (1914)
""Potato-Tree." — A medium-sized, quick-growing and soft wooded tree of Brazil, reaching a height of 40 to 50 feet, first introduced into Ceylon in 1844. ..."

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