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Definition of Mirabilis longiflora
1. Noun. Leafy wildflower having fragrant slender white or pale pink trumpet-shaped flowers; southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mirabilis Longiflora
Literary usage of Mirabilis longiflora
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"MIRABILIS longiflora. Flowers longer than the leaves, sessile. 0is. 1139. In a
garden.—L. sp. 252. ... MIRABILIS longiflora. Berg. 101. 135. CONVOLVULUS. ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"Mirabilis longiflora fertilised by the pollen of M. jalapa has given me an
interesting hybrid. This hybrid is, like many others, notably more vigorous than ..."
3. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: Made Under the by United States Department of the Interior, William Hemsley Emory, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frederic Girard, Timothy Abbott Conrad, George Engelmann, James Hall, Charles Christopher Parry, Arthur Carl Victor Schott, John Torrey (1858)
"... Mirabilis longiflora, Linn. ; Choisy in DO. Prodr. 13, pars 2, p. 428.
Copper Mines, New Mexico, July ; Bigelow, Thurber. Mountains east of El Paso, ..."
4. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"One evening in the month of August, I removed all the stamina from three flowers
of the Mirabilis longiflora, at the same time destroying all the rest of ..."
5. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"Mirabilis longiflora, / . Hypocotyl short, stout, erect or decumbent, terete,
glabrous or glandular-hairy, 1-5-1-S cm. long. Cotyledons very like those of ..."
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