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Definition of Columnea
1. Noun. Tropical plant having thick hairy somewhat toothed leaves and solitary or clustered yellow to scarlet flowers; many cultivated for their flowers and ornamental foliage.
Definition of Columnea
1. a bushy tropical plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Columnea
Literary usage of Columnea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"Climbing columnea, with a ... Сея. Climbing columnea, with a yellow- ilh Flower,
and a white Fruit. ..."
2. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1812)
"columnea. Gen. pi. 1004. Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. ringens : labio superiore ...
Climbing columnea. Nat. of the West Indies. Cult, before 1759, by Mr. Ph. ..."
3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1843)
"In England, it passes under the title of both columnea grandiflora and C.
splendent, each of which is appropriate ; but we have selected the latter because ..."
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