cuphea

plural cupheas

1. Any plant of the genus Cuphea, including cigar plants.

   This is consistent with the results reported by [52 ] which recorded a significant reduction of root length and shoot dry matter in cuphea plants (family Lythraceae) when V(V) was added to hydroponic solutions in the 25–150 μM range.

   2015 October 21, “Detoxification Processes from Vanadate at the Root Apoplasm Activated by Caffeic and Polygalacturonic Acids”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

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   […] I gave myself up to the enjoyment of the landscape, and of the sight of the garden flowers (as we should regard them in England) growing wild at our feet, including cupheas, ageratum, and double briar-roases, irises, jasmines, and many others.

   1885, Annie Brassey, In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties