membranous

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In the latter position, suitable plants for drooping would be: tropeolums,* passifloras,* the single petunias, sweet alyssum, lobelias, verbenas, mesembryanthemums.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

It is for this reason that cactuses, mesembryanthemums, and other plants of a similar description, require very little water when kept in pots.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832 by Various

The numerous families of the pellitories, the chamomiles, the mesembryanthemums, pushed their varied and abundant tufts through the loop-holes in the walls, cracked and fissured in spite of their thickness.

From The Village Rector by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

Tropical flora disappears, and in the semi-desert plains the fleshy, leafless, contorted species of kapsias, mesembryanthemums, aloes and other succulent plants make their appearance.

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