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Definition of Polygonum orientale
1. Noun. Annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America.
Group relationships: Genus Polygonum, Polygonum
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polygonum Orientale
Literary usage of Polygonum orientale
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 (1901)
"In fact, it usually self-sows in old gardens. In some places it has run wild.
There are horticultural 1878. Polygonum orientale (X Ю- ..."
2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"... Polygonum orientale L. Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate;Prince's-feather Herbaceous
annual Cultivated and occasionally escaped to cultivated fields, ..."
3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"... Polygonum orientale L. Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate;Prince's-feather Herbaceous
annual Cultivated and occasionally escaped to cultivated fields, ..."