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The bright pink-red is Etlingera elatior and the yellow pine cone is a Zingiber sp.
Gingers in my garden Glenda Larke 2008
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Acacia tortilis, and other acacia species predominate along with A. elatior, desert date Balanites aegyptiaca and doum palm Hyphaene coriacea in sparse gallery woodlands.
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SHABBIR, M. and ZAMAN, A. (1968) Chemical investigation of the flowers of Opuntia elatior (Cactaceae).
Chapter 5 1953
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* Primula officinalis, var. cult! acaulis. elatior.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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As this seems to clash hard with the name as applied to the Cowslip species, I may at once state that Linnæus has only that one name for the three species, viz: _P. acaulis_, _P. elatior_, _P. veris_; the name _P. vulgaris_, by another authority, is explained by the same rule; Curtis (_Flora Londinensis_) is the authority for the name _P. acaulis_.
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(_Primula elatior_) sections; and also from the _P. sinensis_ section -- the species with so many fine double and single varieties, much grown in our greenhouses, and which, of course, are not hardy.
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Common Cowslips or Paigles (_P. veris_), great Cowslips or Oxlips (_P. elatior_), field primrose or large-flowered primrose (_P. acaulis_), were all in olden times called by the general name of primrose, the literal meaning of which is first-rose.
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There are several varieties and those familiar only with the common green sort (_A. elatior_) will be surprised and pleased with the striking effectiveness of the variegated, (_A.e. varigata_) and with the spotted leaved _A. punctata_.
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The London rocket (_Sisymbrium irio_) occurs only in the old towns of Hertford and Ware; the true oxlip (_Primula elatior_) near the head of the River Stort; a very rare broom-rape, _Orobanche cærulea_, at
Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901
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S. pilosa, Hypericum corymbosum, and Stylosanthes elatior -- is drunk to promote menstruation, and the same decoction is also drunk and used as a wash to counteract the ill effects of eating food prepared by a woman in the menstrual condition, or when such a woman by chance comes into a sick room or a house under the tabu; also drunk for diarrhea and used with other herbs in decoction for breast pains.
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