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specimen plant
noun
Horticulture.
- a plant grown by itself for ornamental effect, rather than being massed with others in a bed or border.
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Pittosporum tobira ‘Turner’s Variegated Dwarf’ makes for a good low hedge or specimen plant, with its yellow-margined leaves and compact habit.
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The specimen plant has no chance of displaying itself under such conditions.
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Some of the palms and ferns were extremely beautiful, and so well grown that each might have been a specimen plant in a greenhouse.
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An excellent specimen plant when grouped with other evergreens on the lawn.
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It is more suitable as an isolated specimen plant than for the border.
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