mesembrianthemums

Updated: May 15, 2025

Mesembrianthemums I must be pardoned this word; for I cannot omit those fleshy-leaved creepers, with their wealth of gaudy blossoms, shaped like sea anemones, coloured like strawberry and pine-apple cream-ices mesembrianthemums, then, tumble in torrents from the walls, and large-cupped white convolvuluses curl about the hedges.

John Addington Symonds - New Italian sketches