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Hardenbergia

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prop. n.1.A small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia.
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Noun1.Hardenbergia - small genus of Australian woody vines with small violet flowers; closely related to genus Kennedia
rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
Papilionoideae, subfamily Papilionoideae - alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Papilionaceae
Hardenbergia comnptoniana, Western Australia coral pea - vigorous climber of the forests of western Australia; grown for their dense racemes of attractive bright rose-purple flowers


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Vines can be polite and well-behaved like the twining hardenbergia with its delicate tassels of purple or the dense silver lace vine with its big drooping plumes of tiny white flowers.
``I didn't know how long I was going to live here, so I didn't want to spend a fortune,'' said Adickes who adorned her arbor with hardenbergia, a lightweight lilac vine that ``blooms with flowers all winter long.
Two brand-new plants are the bird-of-paradise ``Gold Crest,'' which has yellow instead of the customary orange plumes, and from Australia, ``Mini-Ha-Ha'' Hardenbergia, a dwarf shrub.
 
 
 
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