Ebenus

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Ebenus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Ebenus (Greek name for the ebony). Leguminosae. About 15 species of silky-hairy herbs or sub-shrubs, of the eastern Medit. region and eastward to Beluchistan, allied to Onobrychis, sometimes planted in borders but apparently not offered in this country. Fls. reddish or purplish, papilionaceous, in dense axillary long- peduncled spikes; standard obovate or obcordate, narrowed to base; wings short or minute; keel about equaling the standard, the apex obtuse and oblique; calyx-lobes subulate and plumose: pod obovate or oblong, compressed, included in the calyx-tube, indehiscent, 1- or 2-seeded: lvs. odd-pinnate or some of them somewhat digitately 3-foliolate or even simple. E. cretica, Linn., is shrubby with lvs. usually of 5 (sometimes 3) lfts., and reddish purple fls. in ovate- cylindrical spikes. Crete. B.M. 1092 (as Anthyllis cretica). D. Sibthorpti, DC., is herbaceous, with more lfts., and purplish fls. in spherical spikes. This genus has no relation to the ebony, which is of the genus Diospyros (particularly D. Ebenum). ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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