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• A plant genus within the Moraceae family. Made up of mainly tropical trees, shrubs, and woody vines of the mulberry family that have deciduous or evergreen leaves, often begin life as epiphytes, and include some (such as F. benjamina) grown as houseplants and others (such as F. carica) cultivated for their oblong or pear-shaped edible syconium fruit.

• Family of flowering plants, most of these are herbaceous plants, but the family also includes some woody shrubs and a genus of small tropical trees. The family is outstanding for its many garden ornamentals and pharmaceutically important plants. Most species are found in the Northern Hemisphere.

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• genus of herbaceous plants of the poppy family (Papaveraceae), mostly native to south-central Asia. Several species are grown as highly prized ornamentals for their attractive flowers.

• A family of herbs, shrubs, or trees (order Polygonales) chiefly of the north temperate zone having mostly entire leaves with stipules forming a sheath round the stem and flowers that are spicate and apetalous and including the buckwheats.

• A genus of European and Asiatic annual plants (family Polygonaceae) having the achene much exceeding the perianth but otherwise resembling members of the genus Polygonum.

• a genus of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae. Species of Oxyria are perennial herbaceous plants or weakly shrubby.

• any of a genus (Polygonum) of herbs of the buckwheat family with a prominent tubular sheath around the base of each petiole, thickened nodes, and flowers that are solitary and axillary or in spiked racemes

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• Plant family made up of aromatic herbs that grow in moist areas of the tropics and subtropics, including some regions that are seasonably dry. Members of the family are perennials that frequently have sympodial (forked) fleshy rhizomes (underground stems). Commonly known as the ginger family of flowering plants.

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• A plant family containing species of herbs, shrubs, and trees. Representatives occur in all except the coldest parts of the world but are most numerous in the tropics. A number of species are economically important, including cotton (various Gossypium species), cacao (Theobroma cacao), linden (Tilia species), durian (Durio species), Hibiscus, and okra (Abelmoschus esculentus).

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• A plant genus (of the family Tiliaceae) of trees that are native in temperate regions and often planted as shade trees, that are distinguished by having cordate leaves, a winglike bract coalescent with the peduncle, indehiscent fruit with one or two seeds, and soft easily carved wood, and that have a strong hybridizing tendency. A few are outstanding as ornamental and shade trees.