Sarcostemma
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Read about Sarcostemma in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Sarcostemma (name refers to the fleshy corona). Asclepiadaceae. A few small-fld. more or less succulent leafless trailing or twining shrubs of the dry parts of tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, to which N. E. Brown refers a plant long known as a Euphorbia. Fls. greenish, yellowish, or white, in sessile terminal or lateral umbels; corona double, the outer part ring-like or cup-shaped and truncate or shortly lobed, the inner part of 5 fleshy erect lobes; pollen-masses solitary in each anther-cell, pendulous. S. viminale, R. Br. (Tithymalus pendulus, Haw. Euphorbia pendula, Link), grows in Trop. Afr.: trailing, twining, or bush-like, woody below, the lvs. sometimes represented by minute ovate bracts: corolla rotate or somewhat campanulate, greenish white or sulfur-colored. S. Brunonianum, Wight & Arn., of India, has yellow fls. The sarcostemmas require the treatment given ceropegias and similar succulents. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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