talinum paniculatum

1. 1.

   erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere

   Synonymsjewels-of-opar

   Broaderflame flower

Questions about talinum paniculatum

What does talinum paniculatum mean?

talinum paniculatum means "erect plant with tuberous roots and terminal panicles of red to yellow flowers; southwestern North America to Central America; widely introduced elsewhere".

What is another word for talinum paniculatum?

Close synonyms include jewels-of-opar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is talinum paniculatum a common word?

talinum paniculatum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.