Gliricidia
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Read about Gliricidia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Gliricidia (rodent-poison, from the seeds). Leguminosae. Eight or 10 woody plants, Cuba and Mex., to S. Amer., differing from Robinia in the wingless or marginless pods and coriaceous valves. Lvs. odd-pinnate, the lfts. entire: fls. rose-colored, racemose or fasciculate; calyx-teeth short and broad, the 2 upper ones joined; standard large, reflexed; wings falcate- oblong; keel incurved, obtuse; ovary stipitate, many- ovuled, becoming a broad-linear 2-valved pod G. platycarpa, Griseb., of Cuba, is offered in S. Fla.: tree, to 25 ft.: lfts. 7-9, ovate or ovate-oblong, glabrous, the margins undulate: corolla pink or purplish; stigma ciliate: pod sessile, piano-compressed, lanceolate-oblong 8-seeded. G. maculata. HBK. (Lonchocarpus maculatus, DC.), Guatemala to S. Amer., is reported as in cult, in S. Fla.: small tree: lfts. about 17. oblong, obtuse, somewhat appressed-pilose above and blackish-spotted and glaucescent beneath: pod linear, compressed, with thickened margin. L. H. B.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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