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Definition of Halesia tetraptera

1. Noun. Medium-sized tree of West Virginia to Florida and Texas.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Halesia Tetraptera

Literary usage of Halesia tetraptera

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

1. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"HE Halesia tetraptera is a beautiful low tree or large shrub, growing from fifteen to thirty feet in height, with a trunk from five to eighteen inches in ..."

2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer (1879)
"Halesia tetraptera. was kindly sent to us by WWE Wynne, Esq., of Peniarth, Merionethshire. We also recently noticed in Sir Henry Peek's garden at Wimbledon ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... dry, oblong, longitudinally 2-4- winged, tipped with the style and minute calyx teeth. 1016. Halesia tetraptera (X%). AA. Length of 1rs. 4-S in. в. ..."

4. Flowering Trees & Shrubs by Henry Hoare (1902)
"May and June. Deciduous. 30 feet. Corylus Avellana. February. Deciduous. 20 feet. Fraxinus ornus. May and June. Deciduous. 30 feet. Halesia tetraptera. May. ..."

5. The Flower Garden, Or, Breck's Book of Flowers: In which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1858)
"Halesia tetraptera. —Four-winged Halesia. — A native of Carolina, where it is found growing on the banks of rivers. It is an ornamental shrub, ..."

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