Swedish ivy

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noun

1. any of various plants belonging to the genus Plectranthus, of the mint family, native to the Old World tropics, having rounded, scalloped or toothed leaves and widely cultivated as a houseplant.

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Swedish ivy

Swedish ivies are hardy, but the Oval Office Swedish ivy gets the supervisory horticulturalist's conscientious care.

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Thus no single Swedish ivy, it is true, has sat in the Oval Office for two decades.

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The Swedish ivy, however, is above the rest, literally and figuratively.

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Reported by Christopher Redman/Washington and Adam Zagorin/New York Presidents come and go, but the Swedish ivy stays Even at this time of year, Washington, D.C., is crawling with flowers and plants.

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It would be difficult, and maybe impossible, for any one Swedish ivy to serve indefinitely as The Plant, the apotheosis of U.S. household horticulture.

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