Definition of Coleus blumei

1. Noun. Perennial aromatic herb of southeastern Asia having large usually bright-colored or blotched leaves and spikes of blue-violet flowers; sometimes placed in genus Solenostemon.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Coleus Blumei

Cole-Cecil murmur
Cole Albert Porter
Cole Porter
Coleen
Coleman
Coleman Hawkins
Coleonyx
Coleridegy
Coleridge
Coleridgean
Coleridgian
Coles
Colette
Coleus amboinicus
Coleus aromaticus
Coleus blumei
Colima
Colin
Colin Powell
Colin Tampon
Colin luther Powell
Colinus virginianus
Coll
Collard
Collatz conjecture
Colle
Collective Security Treaty Organisation
Colleen
College of Cardinals
Collembola

Literary usage of Coleus blumei

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

1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1864)
"... would it be injurious to heat the house with it a degree or two above freezing ? I had a fine lot of healthy young plants of the coleus blumei and ..."

2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"coleus blumei (Blume's). Steins 1 to H foot high. Principal Species ' - ь Leaves oval, deeply cut and coarsely-toothed ; the central ..."

3. Tissue Culture: Plants: A Bibliography, January 1992-March 1994 by Henry Gilbert (1995)
"P54 Isolation of protoplasts and vacuoles from cell suspension cultures of Coleus blumei Benth. Hausler, E.; Petersen, M.; Alfermann, AW Berlin, W. Ger. ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1918)
"Livingston and Free3 observed marked differences in the rate of water absorption by roots of willow (Salix nigra) and coleus (coleus blumei) when the soil ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"coleus blumei var. Verschaffeltii. petals greenish with reddish margins. Java. C. simplex, Reichb. Lf. oblong, acute, wavy, green with darker blotches: fis. ..."

6. The Fertilisation of Flowers by Hermann Müller, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Charles Darwin (1883)
"The flower of Coleus (Blumei, Benth. ?) is figured and described in No. 560, in. 339. LYCOPUS EUROP^US, L.—The corolla forms a bell 3 to 4 mm. long, ..."

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