cuphea

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

cuphea (plural cupheas)

1. Any plant of the genus Cuphea, including cigar plants.
   • 1885, Annie Brassey, In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties:

     […] I gave myself up to the enjoyment of the landscape, and of the sight of the garden flowers (as we should regard them in England) growing wild at our feet, including cupheas, ageratum, and double briar-roases, irises, jasmines, and many others.

   • 2015 October 21, “Detoxification Processes from Vanadate at the Root Apoplasm Activated by Caffeic and Polygalacturonic Acids”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     This is consistent with the results reported by [52 ] which recorded a significant reduction of root length and shoot dry matter in cuphea plants (family Lythraceae) when V(V) was added to hydroponic solutions in the 25–150 μM range.