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Definition of Pieris floribunda
1. Noun. Ornamental evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having small white bell-shaped flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Pieris, Pieris
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pieris Floribunda
Literary usage of Pieris floribunda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"pieris floribunda (X 2>á-5 in. long; corolla ovate, not angled, Ч in. or slightly
longer. April, May. Japan. RB 11:10. BH 21:19. On. 12:98 and p. ..."
2. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"MOUNTAIN FETTER BUSH (420)—Andro- da floribunda (pieris floribunda). to the last
but the flowers are much larger and in drooping clusters and the plant is ..."
3. Aristocrats of the Garden by Ernest Henry Wilson (1917)
"Another very hardy member of the Heath family is pieris floribunda (better known
as Andromeda floribunda), which opens its small, white, Heather-like ..."
4. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster (1908)
"pieris floribunda (syns Andromeda floribunda and Leucothoe floribunda).—United
States, 1812. Few perfectly hardy shrubs are more beautiful than this, ..."
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