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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Dioclea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Dioclea (after Diocles of Carystos, said to be second only to Hippocrates among the ancients for his knowledge of plants). Leguminosae. Tender shrubby twiners, with delicate trifoliolate leaves and blue, violet, scarlet or white flowers, sometimes nearly an inch long, and borne in clusters which have been roughly compared to Wistaria. Flowers papilionaceous; calyx bell-shaped, 4-cut, 2 lobes shorter and narrower; standard orbicular or ovate, reflexed, auricled or appendaged at base; wings obovate or oblong, free; keel incurved, beaked or obtuse; ovary nearly sessile: pod wide, the upper suture thickened or 2 - winged. — Perhaps 20 species in tropical regions, chiefly in the western hemisphere. What is said to be the following species is cult. in S. Calif., where it has a moderate growth, shining foliage, and clusters of 10 or more large fls. of a splendid scarlet (to be considered with reference to Camptosema). ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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