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Definition of Slipper plant
1. Noun. Any of several tropical American shrubby succulent plants resembling cacti but having foot-shaped bracts.
Exact synonyms: Slipper Spurge
Group relationships: Genus Pedilanthus, Pedilanthus
Specialized synonyms: Candelilla, Pedilanthus Bracteatus, Pedilanthus Pavonis, Jew Bush, Jew-bush, Jewbush, Pedilanthus Tithymaloides, Redbird Cactus, Redbird Flower
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Group relationships: Genus Pedilanthus, Pedilanthus
Specialized synonyms: Candelilla, Pedilanthus Bracteatus, Pedilanthus Pavonis, Jew Bush, Jew-bush, Jewbush, Pedilanthus Tithymaloides, Redbird Cactus, Redbird Flower
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slipper Plant
Literary usage of Slipper plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"slipper plant. BIRD CACTUS. REDBIRD CACTUS. SLIPPER SPURGE. JEW BUSH. Low tender
cactus-like shrubs, grown in collections of succulents. ..."
2. The Bermuda Islands: An Account of Their Scenery, Climate, Productions by Addison Emery Verrill (1902)
"Native of South America. Other species are cultivated less frequently, as J.
podagrica Hook, and J. hastata Jacq. slipper plant; Arsenic Plant. ..."
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