Lexicographical Neighbors of Curcumas
Literary usage of Curcumas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greenhouse & Stove Plants: Flowering and Fine-leaved, Palms, Ferns, and by Thomas Baines (1885)
"curcumas are •of moderate growth, their leaves attaining a height of 2 feet.
The flowers, which spring from the crowns of the plants, are borne on stout ..."
2. Greenhouse and Stove Plants, Flowering and Fine-leaved, Palms, Ferns, and by Thomas Baines (1885)
"curcumas are. of moderate growth, their leaves attaining a height of 2 feet.
The flowers, which spring from the crowns of the plants, are borne on stout ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"... bracts 20-30, connate at their bases, and wholly including the pale yellow fls.
India. BM 5821.—The most beautiful and showiest of the curcumas. ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"curcumas are essentially tropical plants, and the great difficulty is said to be
to maintain sufficient heat while allowing them enough air. cordata, Wall. ..."
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