Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants of the family Scrophulariaceæ, comprising about a dozen shrubs, natives of tropical America, chiefly of Mexico. Two or three species are in cultivation in greenhouses, the commonest one being R. juncea, a slender plant with angular spreading or drooping rush-like nearly leafless branches and racemes of small, slender, bright red, tubular flowers.
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Taller spiky or fountain-like types to give containers a vertical lift include butterfly iris, yucca, cordyline, daniella, ornamental grasses and russelia.
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