Sometimes placed in Smilacaceae.
Fragile twining plant of South Africa with bright green flattened stems and glossy foliage popular as a floral decoration.
1 The handsomest house in town was a bower of smilax and hothouse roses.
2 The front was decorated with American beauty roses, in addition to the smilax .
3 The seven-branched candlesticks on either side of the pulpit were entwined with smilax .
4 Stuart and Eugenia paused before the tall gate of smilax and American beauties.
5 A gilt chandelier was suspended in the middle, from which stretched garlands of real smilax .
6 This insect is larger than P. smilax , but resembles it extremely in its upper side.
7 Within a wealth of palms and smilax was used.
8 A canopy of asparagus and smilax was twined over the recess where the ceremony was performed.
9 The little porch was hidden from view by a screen of yellow roses and Southern smilax .
10 The odor from a vine of smilax thickly covered with the small flowers is very agreeable.
11 The stair-rail was wreathed in fire-weed and early golden-rod, and Temperance texts in smilax decked the walls.
12 It is hard to say what the florist could do without smilax , so indispensable has it become.
13 Their hats were adorned with trailing wreaths of smilax , and about their shoulders were garlands of carnations.
14 It's decorated vith two thousand dollars' worth of bride roses an' lilies of de valley an' smilax .
15 The New Yorker, February 28, 1931 P. 65 The festoons of withered smilax .
16 He took the chair,-inthat pretty observatory parlor, which Polly had made so bright with smilax and ivy.
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