Claim · model-written summary
Its branches spread across the ground surface and multiplied through alternate side branches.
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Verbatim
e0“It produced abundance of branches, which spread themselves on the surface of the ground: these branches were greatly multiplied by side ones, which grow alternately”
t0“Peruvian plant”
Title
Georg Dionysius Ehret Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 1763. doi:10.1098/rstl.1763.0027
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation The plant flowered and flourished at the Chelsea garden in 1761.
- Observation Branches were smooth near the ground and streaked toward the top.
- Observation Each joint bore many ovate leaves with membranous ciliated footstalks.
- Observation The plant produced abundant buds and sky-blue flowers with dark purple bases.