DLS: more visual annotations

[truepenny]

Photographs of aspidistras: 1, 2, and 3. Close-up of an aspidistra leaf.

There also is (or was) a racehorse named Aspidistra.

And whatever the plural of ampelopsis is: 1, 2 (scroll down to find the ampelopsis its own self), 4, 5, 6 and 7 (all over the shop, indeed).

Comments

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

I would say something disparaging about it, but I know better than to blaspheme the aspidistra. ;)

We had lots of those sort of vague green plants in the office where I worked.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

There's also Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying where the aspidistra stands for inexorable respectability.

All my great aunts have them.

The worst thing about them is often the bowls -- you remember the cactus bowl in Busman's Honeymoon? Like that. Horrible things.