youth-on-age
English
Etymology
From the way young plantlets sprout from the middle of older leaves.
Noun
- A perennial plant native to North America and widely planted as an ornamental: Tolmiea menziesii
- 1972, Hazel Heckman, Island Year, page 132:
- Sometimes flowers of youth-on-age are white streaked with green instead of greenish streaked with purple.
Synonyms
- (Tolmiea menziesii): hedge nettle, piggyback plant, thousand mothers
References
- Tolmiea menziesii on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tolmiea menziesii on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Tolmiea menziesii on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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