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Definition of Caricature plant
1. Noun. Tropical Old World shrub having purple or red tubular flowers and leaf markings resembling the profile of a human face.
Group relationships: Genus Graptophyllum, Graptophyllum
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caricature Plant
Literary usage of Caricature plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rambles of a Naturalist on the Shores and Waters of the China Sea: Being by Cuthbert Collingwood (1868)
"... Calm—Lightning—Tropic Birds —Singapore—Traveller's Tree—caricature plant—Approach
to Hong Kong—Appearance from the Sea—Boats and their occupants. ..."
2. Henderson's Handbook of Plants and General Horticulture \ by Peter Henderson (1910)
"... for the beauty of their variegated foliage and their racemes of white flowers.
G. hortense, syn. O. pictum, is properly called the caricature plant, ..."
3. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1888)
"THE caricature plant. One of the most remarkable plants in the whole vegetable
kingdom is that known to botanists as the justicia picta, which has also been ..."
4. Edwards's Botanical Register, Or, Ornamental Flower-garden and Shrubbery by Sydenham Edwards, John Lindley (1829)
"East Indian caricature plant. ... a distorted human countenance, on which account
the caricature plant has become its name. ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"Here is the caricature-plant, with the whimsical variegation of its leaves; the
telegraph-plant, with the jerking of its lateral leaflets like the signals ..."
6. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1873)
"The caricature plant is close at hand. The variegation of the colour on its leaves
often assumes very curious forms, hence its name ; but we confess that we ..."
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