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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Leptocodon in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Leptocodon (slender bell, from the shape of the flowers). Campanulaceae. Twiner, suitable for the greenhouse. From Campanumaea it differs in bearing a dehiscent caps, rather than a fleshy berry, and from Codonopsis in having a tubular upwardly inflated rather than mostly campanulate corolla. The single species is L. gracilis, Hook. f. & Thorn. (Codondpsis gracilis, Hook. f. Campanumaea gracilis, Hort.), of Sikkim (India): glabrous slender perennial with alternate and opposite long-stalked ovate-crenate leaves: corolla 1-1 1/2 in. long, blue, tubular-curved, shortly 5-lobed, the calyx very deeply 5-lobed; stamens 5, free, with as many glands intervening; flowers terminal and opposite the leaves, single on slender peduncles. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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