Guazuma
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Read about Guazuma in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Guazuma (name of Mexican origin). Sterculiaceae. A few Trop. American trees, allied to Theobroma, with small white, pink or yellow fls. in short-peduncled, axillary cymes. Calyx mostly 3-parted; petals 5, 2- parted; stamen-cup about 10-lobed, the lobes alternating with petals and bearing 2-3 fertile anthers, the staminodia 3-angled; style 5-parted: fr. a 5-valved nut the size of a filbert: lvs. 2-rankedt serrate: fls. small. Theobroma has a berry-like fr., entire lvs., fascicled or solitary fls., and a different staminal column. G. ulmifolia, Lam., the "guacima" of Mex., is offered in Calif. It becomes a large tree: branchlets powdery: lvs. ovate to oblong-lanceolate, somewhat pointed, oblique at base, powdery beneath when young but becoming glabrous: nut nearly globular, with 5 furrows. Said to yield medicinal preparations. G. tomentosa, Kunth, is a small tree in W. Indies, apparently not cult here. L. H. B. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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