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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Tipuana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Tipuana (name apparently Latinized from a Brazilian name). Leguminosae. Showy unarmed trees, used ornamentally in the extreme southern U. S. Lvs. unevenly pinnately compound, without stipels; lfts. several, alternate; stipules minute, caducous: fls. showy, yellow or pale purplish, in loosely branched terminal panicles; calyx turbinate, teeth short and broad; standard ovate or suborbicular, not appendaged; wings obliquely obovate or oblong; keel-petals obliquely oblong, obtuse, lightly connate; stamens all connate in a sheath which is split above: pod stipitate, indehiscent, 1-3-seeded, samara-like. — About 4 species, S. Amer. Here belongs the plant recently intro. to S. Calif. as Machaerium Tipu, which is said to yield one of the rosewoods of S. Brazil. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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