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bauhinia
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Bauhinia is a genus of more than 500 species of flowering plants in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the large flowering plant family Fabaceae , with a pantropical distribution. The genus was named after the Bauhin brothers, Swiss - French botanists . ...
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n. Any of flowering plants of the ''Bauhinia'' genus, some of which are known as orchid trees.
Usage examples of bauhinia.
She was the only one who saw the gigantesque beauty of the park, in one season its storm-clouds of mauve jacaranda, in another the violent flamboyants flashing bloodily under the sun, or the tulip-trees and bauhinias that in their time shimmered, their supporting skeletons of trunk and branches entirely swarmed over, become shapes composed of petals alive with bees as a corpse come alive with maggots.
But the blade itself sometimes curves or moves, of which fact Bauhinia offers a striking instance, as the two halves rise up and come into close contact at night.
Some leaves and leaflets, besides moving either upwards or downwards, become more or less folded at night, as in Bauhinia and in some species of Oxalis.
So it was in a very striking manner with young plants of Bauhinia, and with Oxalis Ortegesii.