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velvet plant
noun
- a composite plant, Gynura aurantiaca, native to the Old World tropics, having leaves and stems covered with dense, velvety, purple hairs and often cultivated as a houseplant. Compare purple passion.
- the common mullein, Verbascum thapsus.
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Mullein, for example, over there is called "the American velvet plant" and a well-grown specimen is really handsome.
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