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Viola cornuta

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Noun1.Viola cornuta - European viola with an unusually long corolla spurViola cornuta - European viola with an unusually long corolla spur
viola - any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola


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In the 1860s, the Scottish nurseryman James Grieve crossed pansies with Viola cornuta, known as violas, albeit the journalist William Robinson attempted to drum up support for the name 'tufted pansy'.
Good varieties are Jackanapes, with maroon upper petals and yellow lower ones, and Viola cornuta with lilac-blue blooms.
The little horned violas, Viola cornuta, proliferates happily in gravel or heavy ground.
 
 
 
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