rice-paper plant
noun
1(More fully Chinese rice-paper plant) the shrub Tetrapanax papyrifer (family Araliaceae), of southern China.
2(In full Malay rice-paper plant) the tropical Asian plant Scaevola sericea (family Goodeniaceae), which has pith similar to that of Tetrapanax papyrifer (now rare ).
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in John Lindley (1799–1865), botanist and horticulturist.
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