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  2. Gibasis pellucida - Wikipedia

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    Gibasis pellucida, also known as Tahitian bridal veil, is a trailing plant in the family Commelinaceae that is native to the West Indies, southwest Texas, Argentina and Mexico. [ 1 ] In horticulture , the plant is often mislabelled as the related species Gibasis geniculata .

  3. Gibasis geniculata - Wikipedia

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    Gibasis geniculata is a trailing plant in the family Commelinaceae, native to Mexico and tropical America. [1] The cultivated plant commonly known as Tahitian bridal veil is often mis-labelled as Gibasis geniculata, however its true species is Gibasis pellucida. [2]

  4. Retama monosperma - Wikipedia

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    Retama monosperma, the bridal broom [2] or bridal veil broom, is a flowering bush species in the genus Retama, native to the parts of the Mediterranean Basin (Algeria, Morocco, Portugal and Spain in the west, Egypt, the East Aegean Islands and Greece in the east).

  5. Phallus indusiatus - Wikipedia

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    [5] [14] Phallus indusiatus has many common names based on its appearance, including long net stinkhorn, crinoline stinkhorn, [15] basket stinkhorn, [16] bridal veil fungus, [17] and veiled lady. The Japanese name Kinugasatake ( 衣笠茸 or キヌガサタケ ) , derived from the word kinugasa , refers to the wide-brimmed hats that featured a ...

  6. Dendrobium teretifolium - Wikipedia

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    Dendrobium teretifolium, commonly known as the thin pencil orchid, rat's tail orchid or bridal veil orchid, [2] is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid in the family Orchidaceae. . It has long, thin hanging stems, pencil-like leaves and rigid flowering stems bearing up to twelve crowded white to cream-coloured flowe

  7. Bridal veil (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Bridal veil may refer to: The veil worn by a bride; Bridal Veil, Oregon, an unincorporated community; Bridal Veil Falls (disambiguation), a number of waterfalls; Gibasis pellucida, a houseplant commonly known as 'Tahitian bridal veil'

  8. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.

  9. Asparagus asparagoides - Wikipedia

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    Asparagus asparagoides, commonly known as bridal creeper, bridal-veil creeper, gnarboola, smilax or smilax asparagus, is a herbaceous climbing plant of the family Asparagaceae native to eastern and southern Africa. Sometimes grown as an ornamental plant, it has become a serious environmental weed in Australia and New Zealand.