Platonia

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Platonia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Platonia (from a personal name). Guttiferae. Trees,little known as yet in cult.: lvs. leathery, closely and finely feather-veined: fls. large, rose, solitary, terminal, perfect; sepals 5, imbricate; petals 5, much larger than the calyx, scarcely convolute into an ovoid corolla; stamens 5; ovary 5-celled: fr. a fleshy indehis- cent 5-celled edible berry. Two species from Brazil. P.insignis, Mart. Large tree: lvs. coriaceous, oblong, acute: fls. solitary, terminal, showy; sepals suborbicu- late, 2 outer smaller; petals broad-ovate, rose outside, white inside; ovary ovoid: berry subglobose or oval. Brazil. Intro, and distributed by the U.S.Dept. of Agric. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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