Grewia

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Grewia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Grewia (Nehemiah Grew, of Coventry, 1628-1682, author of a work on anatomy of plants). Tiliaceae. Two or three woody plants slightly cultivated in southern Florida. A genus of about 70 species of trees and shrubs in the warmer parts of the world, often having stellate pubescence: lvs. entire or serrate, 1-9-nerved: fls. yellow or rarely purple, in axillary, few-fld. cymes or terminal panicles; petals 5, with pits or glands inside at the base; stamens indefinite; ovary 2-4-celled: drupe 1-4-stoned. G. caffra, Meissn., from Natal, was intro. by Beasoner Bros, in 1891. A bushy plant with young shoots and lvs. glabrous and with purple star-shaped fls. borne during most of the year. G. denticulata, Wall., from India, was never described. Under this name Reasoner cult, a plant "resembling a mulberry in growth, which bears enormous quantities of acid drupes, about the size of cranberries; used for Eickling." G. oppositifolia, Roxbg., is a rough, much- ranched tree, with distichous, crenate-serrate lvs. and fls. in umbellate cymes, borne opposite the lvs.: fls. yellowish, the oblong petals half the length of the sepals. The species are little known in Amer. N. Taylor. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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