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Geum

noun
1.
Avens.  Synonym: genus Geum.



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"Geum" Quotes from Famous Books



... ovule; but I do not know how many grains a flower produces. With Hibiscus, Kolreuter found that sixty grains were necessary to fertilise all the ovules of a flower, and he calculated that 4863 grains were produced by a single flower, or eighty-one times too many. With Geum urbanum, however, according to Gartner, the pollen is only ten times too much. (10/11. Kolreuter 'Vorlaufige Nachricht' 1761 page 9. Gartner 'Beitrage zur Kenntniss' etc. page 346.) As we thus see that the open state of all ordinary ...
— The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin
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Words linked to "Geum" :   Rosaceae, family Rosaceae, rose family, avens, rosid dicot genus


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