Crossword clues for robinia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Robinia \Ro*bin"i*a\, n. [NL. So called after Jean Robin, a French herbalist.] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America ( Robinia Pseudocacia).
Wikipedia
Robinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae, native to North America and northern Mexico. Commonly known as locusts, they are deciduous trees and shrubs growing tall. The leaves are pinnate with 7–21 oval leaflets. The flowers are white or pink, in usually pendulous racemes. Many species have thorny shoots, and several have sticky hairs on the shoots.
The genus is named after the royal French gardeners Jean Robin and his son Vespasien Robin, who introduced the plant to Europe in 1601.
The number of species is disputed between different authorities, with as few as four recognised by some authors, while others recognise up to 10 species. Several natural hybrids are also known.
Some species of Robinia are used as food by larvae of Lepidoptera, including such moths as the brown-tail ( Euproctis chrysorrhoea), the buff-tip ( Phalera bucephala), the engrailed ( Ectropis crepuscularia), the giant leopard moth ( Hypercompe scribonia), the locust underwing ( Euparthenos nubilis), and Chrysaster ostensackenella.
Usage examples of "robinia".
As the upward movements of the leaflets of Robinia, and the downward movements of those of Oxalis, have been proved to be highly beneficial to these plants when subjected to bright sunshine, it seems probable that they have been acquired for the special purpose of avoiding too intense an illumination.
Several American trees were planted in the ground by Cobbett, of which only one survives, a hickory, together with some straggling bushes of robinia, which Cobbett thought would make good hedges, being very thorny, and throwing up suckers freely, but the branches proved too brittle to be useful.
Thouin found that three species of Robinia, which seeded freely on their own roots, and which could be grafted with no great difficulty on another species, when thus grafted were rendered barren.
Robinia, grafts of Rodents, blind Rudimentary organs Rudiments important for classification Sageret on grafts Salmons, males fighting, and hooked jaws of Salt-water, how far injurious to seeds Saurophagus sulphuratus Schiodte on blind insects Schlegel on snakes Sea-water, how far injurious to seeds Sebright, Sir J.