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At the opposite end of the pond from the waterfall, some human perspective helps give an idea of the size of the Gunnera leaves.
Touring With Friends-Ledbury And Hampton Court Castle, Herefordshire « Fairegarden 2010
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For example, the Andohariana Plateau on Andringitra harbors Gunnera perpensa, which is also found in the Ethiopian highlands, as well as species from temperate genera -- Rubus, Ranunculus, Geranium, Alchemilla -- which are also found in East Africa.
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The only mainland populations of one of New Zealand's rarest plants, Gunnera hamiltonii, are found in stable dune systems on the coast near Invercargill.
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I one day noticed, growing on the sandstone cliffs, some very fine plants of the panke (Gunnera scabra), which somewhat resembles the rhubarb on a gigantic scale.
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I one day noticed, growing on the sandstone cliffs, some very fine plants of the panke (Gunnera scabra), which somewhat resembles the rhubarb on a gigantic scale.
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We made five collections of Gunnera, an astounding genus of plants in which some species have leaves an inch across, whereas others, including the one from the Andes, have leaves six feet wide.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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We made five collections of Gunnera, an astounding genus of plants in which some species have leaves an inch across, whereas others, including the one from the Andes, have leaves six feet wide.
One River Wade Davis 1996
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The panke (_Gunnera scabra_) is a fine plant, growing in Chili, on the sandstone cliffs, which somewhat resembles the rhubarb on a gigantic scale.
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I one day noticed, growing on the sandstone cliffs, some very fine plants of the panke (Gunnera scabra), which somewhat resembles the rhubarb on a gigantic scale.
Chapter XIII 1909
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Every fall, after the first frost -- that frost which blackens his dahlias -- let him cover the crown of his _Gunnera_ with one of its own leaves.
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892
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