Meaning of tacsonia | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of various passionfruit species, genus Passiflora, having elongated calyxes.

Examples

“Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomæa, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.”

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