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A genus of herbs or vines of the family Acanthaceae
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thunbergia
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Thunbergia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Acanthaceae , native to tropical regions of Africa , Madagascar and southern Asia . Thunbergia species are vigorous annual or perennial vines and shrubs growing to 2-8 m tall. The generic name honours ...
Usage examples of thunbergia.
It was bright and hot, the glorious, equable equatorial heat, and when we got out of the mangrove swamps through which the road is causewayed, there was fine tropical foliage, and the trees were festooned with a large, blue Thunbergia of great beauty.
In the openings there were small trees with gorgeous erythrina-like flowers, glowing begonias, red lilies, a trailer with trumpet-shaped blossoms of canary yellow, and a smaller trailer, which climbs over everything that is not high, entwining itself with the blue Thunbergia, and bearing on single stalks single blossoms, primrose-shaped, of a salmon orange color with a velvety black centre.