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Describe the plant here... {{Inc| Hernandia (Francisco Hernandez, physician to Philip II of Spain, travelled in West Indies and Mexico, 1593-1600, and wrote on natural history of Mexico). Hernandiaceae, formerly included in Lauraceae. Jack-in-a-box. Ornamental trees, grown chiefly for their large handsome foliage. Evergreen: lvs. alternate, long-petioled, often peltate, entire, 3-7-nerved, without stipules: fls. monoecious, small, in loose terminal corymbs or panicles; the extreme branches terminated by 3-fld. cymes with a 4^5-leaved involucre at the base; their central fls. pistillate and sessile, the lateral staminate and stalked; pistillate fls. with a lobed cupula: sepals 8-10; ovary inferior, 1-ovuied; style short, with a large lobed stigma; staminate fls. with 3-4 stamens shorter than the 6-8 sepals: fr. globose, ribbed, indehiscent, inclosed in an inflated often colored involucre.—Eight species in the tropics. These are handsome trees with large glossy foliage and with small yellowish or greenish white flowers in terminal corymbs followed by yellowish or whitish subglobose or ovoid fruits. H. sonora is much used in Europe for subtropical bedding, and produces a juice that removes hairs from the face without pain. H. ovigera is cultivated in southern California by Frances- chi, who says it has light green, glossy leaves with a red spot in the center, and large, whitish, egg-shaped fruits. Propagation by cuttings of half-ripened wood under glass, which root easily with bottom heat. }} ==Cultivation==  ===Propagation===  ===Pests and diseases===  ==Species==  ==Gallery== {{photo-sources}} <gallery> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963    ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__

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