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Read about Coccinia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Coccinia (Latin, scarlet; referring to the ornamental gourds). Cucurbitaceae. Tender perennial vines, usually with tuberous roots, grown for ornament mostly indoors. Leaves angled or lobed, sometimes glandular: fls. white or yellowish, large, staminate and pistillate on different plants or sometimes on different branches of the same plant; calyx short, often campanulate: fr. a small, scarlet gourd, sometimes marbled, with an insipid pulp.—-Twenty species from the tropics of Asia and Afr. A. Cogniaux in DC., Mon. Phan. 3:528. C. cordifolia is treated as a tender annual, requiring an early start and no special cult. The genus is sometimes referred to Cephalandra.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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