calcifuges

Updated: May 4, 2025

It is well known that many plants appear to select certain mineral soils and avoid others, that a number of plants which prefer calcareous soils are grouped together as calcicoles, and others which shun such ground as calcifuges. Herr Hoffman has grown the specimen which has been cited by many authors as absolutely calcifugic.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884