Achimenes

Any of various plants of the genera Achimenes or Viola, especially V. tricolor or its hybrids, having flowers with velvety petals of various colors.

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Any of various plants of the genera Achimenes or Viola, especially V. tricolor or its hybrids, having flowers with velvety petals of various colors.

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Although Achimenes can be propagated by division of the tubers, the simpler method of raising a supply from seed has become a common practice.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Achimenes are generally kept in a high temperature; but they do not really need so much heat as Gloxinias, and in a warm greenhouse they can be flowered without the least difficulty.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

= = Achimenes = = are stove bulbs and cannot be grown without a sufficiency of heat.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

_Lilium_, _Saxifraga_, _Begonia_, _Achimenes_, normally produce leaf-buds or bulbs in the inflorescence; so, too, leafy shoots are sometimes found in _Alisma natans_, _Juncus uliginosus_, _Chlorophytum

Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters

The family _Gesneraceæ_ is mainly a tropical one, represented in the greenhouses by the magnificent _Gloxinia_ and _Achimenes_, but of native plants there are only a few parasitic forms destitute of chlorophyll and with small, inconspicuous flowers.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell