Definition of Pereskia aculeata

1. Noun. West Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pereskia Aculeata

Percival
Percival Lowell
Percoll
Percophidae
Percy
Percy Aldridge Grainger
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Grainger
Perdicidae
Perdicinae
Perdix perdix
Pere Jacques Marquette
Peregrine
Perejil
Pereskia
Pereskia aculeata
Perez
Perez' sign
Perez reflex
Perfecter of the Elect
Pergamum
Periactin
Pericallis
Pericallis cruenta
Pericallis hybrida
Periclean
Pericles
Peridiniidae
Peridinium
Perilla frutescens crispa

Literary usage of Pereskia aculeata

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

1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1838)
"Having prepared a quantity of stocks of pereskia aculeata, which have been previously divested of all their branches, and have attained the height of ..."

2. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1856)
"One specimen of pereskia aculeata, nine feet high, which was grafted two years ago with E. truncatum, the grafts being inserted three inches apart, ..."

3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1838)
"Having prepared a quantity of stocks of pereskia aculeata, which have been previously divested of all their branches, and have attained the height of ..."

4. Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. (1857)
"The method of grafting them on Pereskia, aculeata is this: cut the head of the stock off from six inches to two feet, as preferred for the height, ..."

5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1872)
"A sped» of Pereskia (aculeata) afforded a slenderer stem for grafting it on than another cactus, ¡ and was adopted as more sightly, ..."

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