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Brunfelsia

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Noun1.Brunfelsia - genus of tropical American shrubs grown for their flowers followed by fleshy berrylike fruits
asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
family Solanaceae, potato family, Solanaceae - large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra
Brunfelsia americana, lady-of-the-night - West Indian shrub with fragrant showy yellowish-white flowers


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For instance, consider Brunfelsia maliformis, a yellow flowering relative of the popular shrub known as yesterday-today-and-tomorrow (Brunfelsia pauciflora) because its flowers turn from purple to lavender to white in a matter of days.
The Latin name of yesterday-today-and-tomorrow is Brunfelsia pauciflora ``Floribunda.
 
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