单词 | landolphia |
释义 | landolphian. A tropical African climbing plant of the genus so called, belonging to the family Apocynaceæ and yielding a latex formerly used as a source of rubber. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > rubber trees or plants > [noun] > landolphia plants tree-climber1864 landolphia1887 tree-creeper1887 1886 G. Nicholson Illustr. Dict. Gardening II. 232 Landolphia... A genus comprising about sixteen species of stove scandent shrubs.] 1887 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 113 6963 The first notice of the Landolphia yielding India-rubber..is by Col. now Sir J. A. Grant, in the appendix to Speke's Journal. 1910 Westm. Gaz. 20 Apr. 4/1 Landolphias, woody climbers,..yield the African rubbers. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) III. 1125/1 Landolphias are an important source of caoutchouc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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