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Definition of Dipladenia
1. Noun. Genus of tropical South American tuberous perennial woody vines with large racemose flowers and milky sap.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Apocynaceae, Dogbane Family, Family Apocynaceae
Member holonyms: Dipladenia Boliviensis, Mandevilla Boliviensis, White Dipladenia, Chilean Jasmine, Mandevilla Laxa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dipladenia
Literary usage of Dipladenia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The name dipladenia, "double gland," appropriately indicates the chief character.
... The species of dipladenia are divided Into two sections: 1. ..."
2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"... of the principal species, but these* have largely been superseded in cultivation
by their hybrid offspring. Principal Species. . v ,, , iU dipladenia ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Here belongs the fine tropical yellow-lid, climber sold as dipladenia Harrisii,
which rivals in beauty the well known greenhouse ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1874)
"... over 5 feet in diameter ; dipladenia amabilis with a profusion of ...
magnifica with ten of its orange- scarlet heads, dipladenia ..."
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