twiners

Members of the genus range in growth habit from shrubs to large, spreading trees, although many species are rootclimbers, twiners and epiphytes.

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So as soon as the little runners form put brush behind the plant and start the twiners about the brush stalks.

The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw

-- These rapid twiners thrive in any loamy soil, and may be increased by putting down layers in the autumn, after the leaves begin to fall.

Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink

We recall the slender fronds climbing over the low bushes, unique twiners, charming, indeed, in their native habitat.

The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada George Henry Tilton

It is, however, probable, from reasons which I have assigned in my memoir, that this will have occurred only with plants which had already acquired the power of revolving, and had thus become twiners.

VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

As in many widely separated families of plants, single species and single genera possess the power of revolving, and have thus become twiners, they must have independently acquired it, and cannot have inherited it from a common progenitor.

VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

He who will read my memoir on these plants will, I think, admit that all the many gradations in function and structure between simple twiners and tendril-bearers are in each case beneficial in a high degree to the species.

VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

I have already endeavoured to explain how plants became twiners, namely, by the increase of a tendency to slight and irregular revolving movements, which were at first of no use to them; this movement, as well as that due to a touch or shake, being the incidental result of the power of moving, gained for other and beneficial purposes.

VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

But in ascending the series from simple twiners to leaf-climbers, an important quality is added, namely sensitiveness to a touch, by which means the foot-stalks of the leaves or flowers, or these modified and converted into tendrils, are excited to bend round and clasp the touching object.

VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909

Two recommendable woody twiners of recent distribution are the actinidia and the akebia, both from Japan.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906