... silk', referring to the silky hairs surround- ing the seeds, Latin bombyx, bycis 'silk-worm, silk, any fine fibre ... floss, flow- ers and flowers buds cooked as vegetable See Hort. Malab. 3: 61, t. 52. 1682, Sp. Pl. 1: 511. 1753 ...
... Silk Floss Tree , the sole tree left standing after the hurricane ; and pause to see the golden - billed toucans who ... poisonous plant patch , carefully screened off from visitors . There's even a citrus quarantine to keep their ...
... tree grows naturally in tropical America from the Antilles and Costa Rica to ... ( silk floss ) tree . It contains a juice Correspondence The editors are not ... poisonous and on this account the natives in certain regions shun the ...
... Tree Origin : Eastern United States Growth Rate : Slow Salt Tolerance : Low ... Poisonous Common Uses : Small flowering tree ; flowering shrub Major ... Floss - silk Tree ; Silk - floss Tree Origin : Brazil and Argentina Growth ...
... trees joggling in the wild family land, brushes sinking and surfacing, the river water undulating, grey dust ... silk floss tree. (Chang 2000, 262) Here, one gets a sense of Chang's protean imagination and baroque prose which ...
... trees joggling in the wild family land, brushes sinking and surfacing, the river water undulating, grey dust rolling, fallen ... silk floss tree.39 Here, one gets a sense of Chang's protean imagination and comparison as relation 91.
... tree fruits into a pulpy mass, wrap it in silk floss and insert this [into the affected ears]. To be repeat- edly ... poisonous. Da Ming: The root of male specimens is red and poisonous; it causes vomiting and outflow and kills you ...
... poisonous snakes. He had known them to cure the bite of the cascabel (rattle-snake), and even of the small spotted ... floss of the silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba), he covered the incisions, so as to stop the bleeding. He wound up ...