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cobaea

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noun

  1. any climbing shrub of the tropical American genus Cobaea, esp C. scandens, grown for its large trumpet-shaped purple or white flowers: family Polemoniaceae
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Origin of cobaea1

named after Bernabé Cobo (1572–1659), Jesuit missionary and naturalist
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Cobaea, or any morning glory or nasturtium relative, is sown in May in the greenhouse or under lights.

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Todd Forrest, vice president of horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, said he was astonished to find on the High Line plantings of a wildflower from Arkansas named Penstemon cobaea.

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Pentstemon.—The popular garden varieties have sprung from P. Hartwegii and P. Cobaea.

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In some cases, however, they are transformed into leaves, like the calyx, and occasionally leaf-buds are developed in their axil They are seldom green, although occasionally that colour is met with, as in some species of Cobaea, Hoya viridiflora, Gonolobus viridiflorus and Pentatropis spiralis.

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For instance, the tendril of Cobaea first rises vertically up, with its branches divergent and with the terminal hooks turned outwards; the young shoot at the extremity of the stem is at the same time bent to one side, so as to be out of the way.

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