What is Zenobia (plant)?
{{italic title}} {{More sources|date=July 2022}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Zenobia'' | status = | image = Zenobia_pulverulenta_HRM2.JPG | image_width = 240px | image_caption = ''Zenobia pulverulenta'' | regnum = [[Plant]]ae | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]] | classis = [[Magnoliopsida]] | ordo = [[Ericales]] | familia = [[Ericaceae]] | genus = '''''Zenobia''''' | genus_authority = [[David Don|D.Don]] | species = '''''Zenobia pulverulenta''''' | binomial = ''Zenobia pulverulenta'' | binomial_authority = ([[John Bartram|Bartram]] ex [[Carl Ludwig von Willdenow|Willd.]]) [[Charles Louis Pollard|Pollard]] }} [[File:Zenobia pulverulenta.jpg|thumb|left|''Zenobia pulverulenta'']] '''''Zenobia''''' is a [[genus]] of small [[shrub]]s in the family ''[[Ericaceae]]''. There is only one [[species]] in this genus — ''Zenobia pulverulenta'' from [[bog]]s of [[south]]-[[east]] of [[USA]]. The common [[English language|English]] name of this plant is ''Honeycup''. It is an [[evergreen]] [[plant]] with blue-green [[leaf|leaves]] and small white [[flower]]s in the shape of [[bell]]s. The genus was named in [[honour]] of [[Zenobia|Zenobia Septimia]] (240 — after 274), [[Queen]] of [[Palmira]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ahNMkgoNJ7IC&pg=PA357&vq=Zenobia&dq=Zenobia&source=gbs_search_r&cad=0_1&sig=ACfU3U1SJ6XFHKOn3LDNo39znYOQtDgAMQ ''Smith A. W.'' A Gardener’s Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins. — Courier Dover Publications, 1997.] — {{ISBN|0-486-29715-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-486-29715-6}}.</ref> Honeycup is [[Gardening|cultivated]] as a [[garden]] plant. {{Clear|left}} == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == {{Commonscat|Zenobia pulverulenta}} {{wikispecies|Zenobia}} * [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?13027 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Zenobia (plant)''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013050635/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?13027 |date=2008-10-13 }} * [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?406579 Germpl