Peltophorum

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Scientific Names

Read about Peltophorum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Peltophorum (Greek, shield and bearing, referring to the peculiar stigma). Leguminosae. A few species of splendid tropical trees, belonging to the same tribe as the gorgeous Poinciana and Caesalpinia. Flowers yellow; petals 5, roundish; stamens 10, free, declinate; filaments pilose at base; ovary sessile, 2- to many-ovuled: pod nattish, indehiscent, with narrowly winged margins. Peltophorum is distinguished from Caesalpinia and Poinciana by the valvate calyx-segms. of the latter, while the two former have their calyx- segms. strongly imbricated. The peculiar stigma of Peltophorum readily distinguishes it from its close allies, Caesalpinia and Haematoxylon (logwood) . These genera represent a- type of structure widely different from the northern pea-shaped fls., as they have 5 distinct petals which are all about the same size and shape. There is a fine colored plate of a Peltophorum in Blanco's "Flora of the Philippines," where the golden fls. are nearly 1 1/2 in. across, a dozen of them in each raceme, and 4 racemes uniting to form a great panicle. Peltophorums have the Mimosa type of foliage. Each lf. of P. Inerme has 8-10 pairs of pinnae, and each pinna 10-20 pairs of lfts. The generic name is preoccupied by Peltophorus, a genus of grasses, and is consequently replaced by some recent authors by the name Baryxylum. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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