large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous
poroporo
Noun
Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit
potato tree
Noun
hardy climbing shrub of Chile grown as an ornamental for its fragrant flowers
potato tree
Noun
South American shrub or small tree widely cultivated in the tropics
poisonous nightshade
Noun
poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries
prairie berry
Noun
weedy nightshade with silvery foliage and violet or blue or white flowers
petty spurge
Noun
an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States
purple ground cherry
Noun
annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
purple ground cherry
Noun
Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
poinsettia
Noun
tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
pichi
Noun
Peruvian shrub with small pink to lavender tubular flowers
painted leaf
Noun
tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers
painted leaf
Noun
poinsettia of United States and eastern Mexico
paint leaf
Noun
showy poinsettia found from the southern United States to Peru
painted tongue
Noun
Chilean herb having velvety funnel-shaped yellowish or violet flowers with long tonguelike styles at the corolla throat
poor man's orchid
Noun
any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers
petunia
Noun
any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers
pica-pica
Noun
a stinging herb of tropical America
physic nut
Noun
small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities
purple sanicle
Noun
sanicle of northwestern United States and British Columbia having yellow or red or purple flowers
poison hemlock
Noun
large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers
poison parsley
Noun
large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers
palma christi
Noun
large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin
palma christ
Noun
large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin
pine fern
Noun
fern of Florida and West Indies and Central America with rhizome densely clad in grown hairs
powdery mildew
Noun
any of various fungi of the genus Erysiphe producing powdery conidia on the host surface
pillwort
Noun
European water fern found around margins of bodies of water or in wet acid soil having small globose sporocarps
puffball
Noun
any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
puffball
Noun
any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
pedwood
Noun
European deciduous shrub turning red in autumn having dull white flowers
pudding berry
Noun
creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots
perithecium
Noun
flask-shaped ascocarp
plastid
Noun
any of various small particles in the cytoplasm of the cells of plants and some animals containing pigments or starch or oil or protein
pythium
Noun
any fungus of the genus Pythium
pig's ears
Noun
an edible agaric with a brown fruiting body that is often compound
promycelium
Noun
the basidium of various fungi
plasmodial slime mold
Noun
a slime mold of the class Myxomycetes
pond-scum parasite
Noun
an aquatic fungus of genus Synchytriaceae that is parasitic on pond scum
potato wart fungus
Noun
fungus causing potato wart disease in potato tubers
parasol mushroom
Noun
edible long-stalked mushroom with white flesh and gills and spores
poisonous parasol
Noun
an agaric regarded as poisonous
pink disease fungus
Noun
fungus causing pink disease in citrus and coffee and rubber trees etc
potato fungus
Noun
fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers
purple-staining Cortinarius
Noun
a fungus with a reddish purple cap having a smooth slimy surface
polypore
Noun
woody pore fungi
pore fungus
Noun
woody pore fungi
pore mushroom
Noun
woody pore fungi
prop root
Noun
a root that grows from and supports the stem above the ground in plants such as mangroves
poisonous plant
Noun
a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism