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Definition of Datura suaveolens
1. Noun. South American plant cultivated for its very large nocturnally fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers.
Group relationships: Brugmansia, Genus Brugmansia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Datura Suaveolens
Literary usage of Datura suaveolens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gardening in California: Landscape and Flower by John McLaren (1908)
"datura suaveolens. Herbs, shrubs or trees with large entire ... The best kinds
are Datura sanguinea, Datura arborea, datura suaveolens and Datura ..."
2. Gartenflora: Monatsschrift Fur Deutsche und Schweizerische Garten- und by Eduard Regel (1899)
"Herr Lackner bemerkte, dass datura suaveolens auch bei JC Schmidt in Steglitz blühe.
Dasselbe ist bei Herrn Mehl und noch einigen Herren der Fall. ..."
3. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"datura suaveolens is said to be a native of Mexico and D. arborea of Peru and
Chili, but they are so much alike that they are distinguished with diffuculty ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Agave, aloe, Lippia citriodora, datura suaveolens, some of the hardier cacti,
eg, Selenicereus grandi- florus and Opuntia ..."
5. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by Esther Baldwin York (1906)
"... which is, however, from a botanical point of view, only a variety of Datura
suaveolens, a native of Mexico, and introduced therefrom in 1733. ..."
6. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"Amongst the few ornamental plants were datura suaveolens, Strelitzia augusta,
with a stem 15 feet high, Plumeria acutifolia, Yucca aloifolia, ..."
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