Assertion: cultivar | /r/HasProperty | cultivated varieties
Facets:
value: because of attractively marked leaves
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: By the 1860s, a substantial number of cultivars (cultivated varieties) were available in a range of colours and habits, and were used as ornamental plants in "stoves" (heated greenhouses) and in houses, where they were popular for their autumn and winter flowering.
text: Because of their sometimes showy flowers of white, pink, scarlet, or yellow color and often attractively marked leaves, many species and innumerable hybrids and cultivars are cultivated.
text: During the past ten years or so large quantities of cultivars (cultivated varieties) have come into the market through tissue culture of selected genetic mutations.