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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.)

The cardinal lobelia (L. cardinalis) of eastern North America has large bright red flowers.



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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.
Actions and Reactions by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
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.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
His tortured garden was bright with geraniums and lobelias and polished shells.
A Room With A View by Forster, E. M. View in context
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