Gynerium

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Gynerium
GYNERIUM s. (greek gune, pistil; erion, wool; woolly pistil) Bot. Genus of arundinaceae(1) in the family gramineae, whose main species is the pampas grass (gynerium argenteum(2)) or Uruguayan pampas grass, a big herbaceous perennial plant native to the plains of South America: This plant flowers at the end of summer or at the beginning of fall and produces a lot of stems, sometimes as many as 40 or 50, which can be from …Read more »

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