specimen plant

noun

Horticulture.

a plant grown by itself for ornamental effect, rather than being massed with others in a bed or border.

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Pittosporum tobira ‘Turner’s Variegated Dwarf’ makes for a good low hedge or specimen plant, with its yellow-margined leaves and compact habit.

Some of the palms and ferns were extremely beautiful, and so well grown that each might have been a specimen plant in a greenhouse.

An excellent specimen plant when grouped with other evergreens on the lawn.

It is more suitable as an isolated specimen plant than for the border.

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