cruel plant

cruel plant
noun
robust twining shrub having racemes of fragrant white or pink flowers with flat spreading terminal petals that trap nocturnal moths and hold them until dawn
Syn: ↑Araujia sericofera
Hypernyms: ↑vine
Member Holonyms: ↑Araujia, ↑genus Araujia

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noun
Etymology: so called from the fact that insects become entangled in the flowers
: any of several plants of the genera Araujia, Schubertia, or Cynanchum (family Asclepiadaceae)

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