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Definition of Genus Schizanthus

1. Noun. Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Schizanthus

Literary usage of Genus Schizanthus

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

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... of the plants in question—as, for instance, the various species of the genus Schizanthus—are called by gardeners "plants with explosive flowers". ..."

2. The Principles of Floriculture by Edward Albert White (1915)
"Order, Solanaceae; genus Schizanthus (Greek split and flower);' species, pinnatus. 484. Botanical characters. — The schizanthus is an annual plant with ..."

3. Illustrations of South American Plants by John Miers (1850)
"The genus Schizanthus, from the lateral extra-axillary insertion of its pedicels and other characters, appears evidently to belong to the ..."

4. The American Gardener's Assistant: In Three Parts, Containing Complete by Thomas Bridgeman, Sereno Edwards Todd (1867)
"No plants will, however, more amply repay all the care and trouble that may be bestowed on them, than those of the elegant genus Schizanthus. ..."

5. The American Gardener's Magazine by C M Hovey (1835)
"No plant will, however, more amply repay all the care and trouble thai may be bestowed on them, than the elegant genus Schizanthus. The best soil for them ..."

6. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"The genus Schizanthus is known by its remarkably 5-cleft and incised corollas, growing in diffuse panicles, parti-coloured, and with only two stamens. ..."

7. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1836)
"The generic name is given in consequence of the sword-shaped leaves of the plants of this genus. SCHIZANTHUS ..."

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