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Definition of Shortia galacifolia
1. Noun. Plant of southeastern United States having solitary white funnel-shaped flowers flushed with pink and large glossy green leaves that turn bronze-red in fall.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shortia Galacifolia
Literary usage of Shortia galacifolia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Shortia, like most plants considered rare, is really not BO rare as local, though
the few stations where it is 3613. Shortia galacifolia. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1887)
"Here it was that Robinia viscosa and Shortia galacifolia were first found—two
plants which were for so long a time thought to be lost species. ..."
3. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by William Robinson, Esther Baldwin York (1903)
"... and Shortia galacifolia. The former were mostly N. elegans alba, of which
alone some two dozen flowering examples were staged. It is a beautiful plant, ..."
4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1907)
"Shortia galacifolia Torr. & Gray, in Am. Journ. Sci. I. 42 : 48. 1842. The story
of this species is given by CS Sargent, together with an illustration, ..."
5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1902)
"... flowers and round, Pyrola-like leaves. FIG. 181. Shortia galacifolia, for a
long time considered one of the rarest North American plants. Original. ..."
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