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lobelia) Lobelia, Shira Plateau, Tanzania. The lobelia family contains over 750 species of flowering plant, native to both hemispheres. They are mostly small annual plants, but the tall tree-lobelias of East Africa grow for about twenty years and flower only once. Any of a group of temperate and tropical plants with white to mauve flowers. Lobelias may grow to shrub size but are mostly small annual plants. (Genus Lobelia, family Lobeliaceae.)
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Tight beds of geranium, calceolaria, and lobelia speckled the glass-plat, from whose centre rose one of the finest araucarias(its other name by the way is "monkey-puzzler"), that it has ever been my lot to see. I shall hereafter have occasion to show that the exotic Lobelia fulgens, in this part of England, is never visited by insects, and consequently, from its peculiar structure, never can set a seed. His tortured garden was bright with geraniums and lobelias and polished shells. |
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