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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Ptilotus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Trichinium (Greek, hairy, alluding either to the plant in general or to the fl.-heads). Amarantaceae. Herbs, subshrubs or rarely shrubs glabrous or pubescent, adapted to greenhouse cult.: lvs. alternate, narrow, rarely obovate or spatulate, entire: fls. in dense spikes or globose or oblong heads, white, straw-colored or rose, hermaphrodite; perianth narrow or elongate, 5-parted, segms. equal, linear, rigid, usually plumose; stamens 5; ovary sessile or stipitate, glabrous or lanuginous, ovule 1: fr. an indehiscent utricle.—About 60 species, natives of Austral. T. Manglesii, Lindl., is perhaps the choicest species. It has violet-purple fls. in large pyramidal heads 3 in. long and 2 in. wide at base. It could probably be grown as a summer annual. B.M. 5448. F.S. 23:2396. R.H. 1866:291. F. 1864:217. I.H. 13:464. G.C. 1864: 555; III.32:181. G. 25:20. Gn. 68, p. 225. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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