Datisca

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Datisca in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Datisca (old Greek name, applied to some doubtful plant). Datiscaceae. Tall perennial herbs, one of which is sometimes planted in gardens. Glabrous branching hemp-like plants with pinnately compound or ternately divided alternate lvs., the lfts. or seems, lanceolate and usually serrate or toothed: fls. usually dioecious, the staminate fascicled in the axils and short-pedicelled, the pistillate racemose on axillary branchlets; stamens in sterile fl. 8-12-25, mostly opposite the calyx-lobes; stamens sometimes present in fertile fls. but few and perhaps alternate with calyx- lobes; ovary 3-angled at top, with 3 styles which are 2-parted: fr. a narrow ribbed many-seeded caps., opening between the styles at the top.—Species 2, one in S. E. Eu. and W. Asia, and the other in Calif. and Mex.; the former is in cult. abroad, requiring no special treatment; prop. by seeds and division. The family Datiscaceae is placed near Begoniaceae and Cactaceae. It comprises two other genera of tall trees, neither of which is recorded as in cultivation; these are Octomeles, with two species in the Malayan archipelago, and Tetrameles, with one species in East India to Java. D. glomerata, Brew. & Wats., the American species, is apparently not in cult.: 2½-4 ft., stout, glabrous, the sts. clustered: lvs. ternately divided or lobed: staminate fls. in clusters of 3; pistillate fls. 4-7 together or scattered along short branchlets. It is the durango-root of the Coast ranges and Sierra Nevada. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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