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Definition of Francoa ramosa

1. Noun. Chilean evergreen shrub having delicate spikes of small white flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Francoa Ramosa

Literary usage of Francoa ramosa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"francoa ramosa. D. Don in 1. cp 52. Plant perennial. Caudex very short, round, about the thickness of a writing quill, and from 2 to 3 inches high ; clothed ..."

2. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by William Robinson (1903)
"We have bent puzzled in exactly the same way as yourself, for seed of the white francoa ramosa saved where there were no coloure( forms yielded plants, ..."

3. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branchesby Esther Baldwin York by Esther Baldwin York (1906)
"235 Lobelia, blue, the new double (coloured supplement) Loganberry, the (coloured supplément) Maiden's Wreath, the (francoa ramosa), growing out of doors In ..."

4. Botanical Miscellany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of Such Plants as by William Jackson Hooker (1833)
"francoa ramosa, Don, in Ed. N. Phil. Journ. N. 11. p. 52.—Quebrada de las Lacunas, near Valparaiso, Bridges, 1832, (N. 197.) Valparaiso, Cuming (N. 779. ..."

5. The English Flower Garden and Pleasure Ground: Design and Arrangement Shown by William Robinson (1899)
"Chilian plants of the Saxifrage family, somewhat tender, and suitable for dry sheltered positions on warm borders or banks, pre- francoa ramosa (Maiden's ..."

6. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson, F. L. S., William Robinson (1906)
"... btrt' francoa ramosa (Maiden's Wreath). sent here [from the Continent two or three years since under the name of /. intermedia, and was announced as a ..."

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