Lexicographical Neighbors of Stapelias
Literary usage of Stapelias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"The stapelias are usually grown with greenhouse succulents, ... The stapelias
are easy of cultivation. Most of the species demand the treatment given to ..."
2. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1856)
"The flowers of the bladder-headed saussurea have the smell of putrid meat: and
the stapelias, because of their putrid and disagreeable odour, ..."
3. The Vegetable World: Being a History of Plants, with Their Botanical by Louis Figuier (1869)
"... the stapelias, of grotesque appearance, with star-like flowers ... the sandy
coast of this curious botanical region that such plants as the stapelias, ..."
4. Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden by Maria Theresa Earle, Constance Lytton (1898)
"I have a great many stapelias, South African plants rather resembling miniature
... Sometimes the scent of these South African stapelias resembles that of ..."
5. The Home and Foreign Review (1864)
"To these may be added great numbers of stapelias, Statices, castor-oil trees,
and species of Capparis. The broad valleys and plains, which are enclosed by ..."
6. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"In passing through the Karroo, I expected to have seen abundance of stapelias,
but scarcely half a dozen appeared. No part of the colony seems to be so rich ..."
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