Wood Rose

“Wood-rose, a remarkable vegetable excrescence, resembling a flower with radiating corrugated petals carved from wood, caused by the union of the saucer-shaped placenta-like base of certain parasitic plants of the mistle-toe family with the foster-branch of the host and its persistence after the death of the plant.” -Whitney, 1911

Keywords

krose, Botany, parasitic plant, plant parasite, wood rose, wood-rose, Dactylanthus taylorii, pua o te reinga, pua reinga, waewae atua, rosa de palo, rosa de madera

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Source

William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)

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