| 释义 |
echeveria|ɛkiːˈvɪərɪə|
[‘In honour of M. Echeveri, author of the splendid drawings of the Flora Mexicana’ (Paxton).]
A handsome genus of succulent plants allied to the house-leek (family Crassulaceæ), extensively used in carpet gardening.
1840Paxton Bot. Dict. 1883Pall Mall G. 17 Sept. 3/2 My Londoner, who..likes old friends among the flowers whose names he has got well into his head better than all the Alternantheras and Echeverias. 1883G. Allen in Colin Clout's Calendar 147 It will not away with your modern gloxinias and echeverias. |