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'''''Turraea''''' is a genus of [[plants]] in family [[Meliaceae]], native throughout of Old World Tropics.

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Turraea (named for Giorgio della Torre or Turra, 1607-1688, botanist of Padua, Italy). Meliaceae. Trees or shrubs, sometimes grown in the greenhouse in the North; in the South used as outdoor ornamentals.

Leaves alternate, petioled, entire or obtusely lobed: peduncles axillary, few-fld. and many-bracted: fls. elongated, white; calyx 4-5-toothed or parted; petals 4-5, elongated, free, twisted; staminal tube 8-10-toothed, anthers 8-10; disk annular; ovary oblong, 5-10-20-celled; ovules 2, superposed in each cell: caps. 5- to many-celled, loculicidally 5- to many-valved.— About 73 species, Trop. and S. Afr., Trop. Asia, and Austral.
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==Cultivation==
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===Propagation===
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===Pests and diseases===
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==Species==
It contains approximately 70 species, including:

* ''[[Turraea adjanohounii]]'', Aké Assi
* ''[[Turraea kimbozensis]]'', Cheek
* ''[[Turraea socotrana]]'', White

Turraea abyssinica Hochst. 

Turraea anomala (O. Hoffm.) Harms

Turraea fockei Buchenau

Turraea floribunda Hochst.

Turraea geayi Danguy

* ''[[Turraea heterophylla]]''

Turraea humberti Danguy

Turraea lanceolata Cav.

Turraea longifolia C. DC.

Turraea mombassana

Turraea nilotica Kotschy & Peyr.

Turraea obovata Gürke

* ''[[Turraea obtusifolia]]'' Hochst.

Turraea pervillei Baill.

Turraea pubescens Hell. 

Turraea rhombifolia Baker

Turraea richardii Baill.

Turraea robusta

Turraea rostrata C. DC.

Turraea sericea Sm.

Turraea thouvenotii Danguy

Turraea venulosa Baker

Turraea virens L.

Turraea wakefieldii Oliv. 

Turraea zambesica Sprague & Hutch. ex Hutch.

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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->

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