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Definition of Brassavola
1. Noun. Any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7.
Literary usage of Brassavola
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants by John Lindley (1830)
"I formerly called this brassavola trinervis, under which name it was distributed
by the ... brassavola nodosa. B. labello cordato acuminato integerrimo, ..."
2. A Gardener's Year by Henry Rider Haggard (1905)
"... the last one of the most glorious flowers that ever I beheld, being in effect
a large brassavola, tinged with gold, and having its margin wonderfully ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"B. brassavola (AM brassavola, Venetian botanist ). ... For the cultivator, the
treatment of brassavola is identical with that of the Mexican ..."
4. The Dictionary of Biographical Reference: Containing Over One Hundred by Lawrence Barnett Phillips (1889)
"... Comte de, French and military officer; 1730 UK ambassador anil minister of
state ; 1579—1645 DU brassavola, Antonio - Musa, Italian physician, botanist, ..."
5. Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin by Missouri botanical garden (1913)
"The production of hybrids between species of brassavola and Cattleya is receiving
more attention at the present time, and those which have been realized ..."
6. Flora Telluriana by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1836)
"(brassavola tuberculata Hook. bm 2878) folia crassa gra- minea arum. supra sulcata,
... The type of the G. brassavola was Epidendrum ..."
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