Quillaja

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Quillaja in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Quillaja (from Quillai, the Chilean name, which comes from quillean, to wash: the bark of the tree contains saponin, an alkaline compound, which makes it useful as soap). Rosaceae. Glabrous evergreen trees, whose bark is sometimes saponaceous, occasionally grown in the greenhouse and hardy outdoors in the southern United States. Leaves sparse, petioled, simple, thick-coriaceous, rather entire; stipules small, deciduous: peduncles axillary and terminal, 3-5-fld.: fls. polygamous-dioecious, rather large, tomentose, the lateral male, the central fertile; calyx leathery, persistent, lobes 5, broadly ovate, valvate; petals 5, small, sessile, spatulate; disk thick, fleshy, 5-lobed; stamens 10; carpels 5: follicles 5, oblong, obtuse, leathery, cohering at their base, many-seeded.—About 3 or 4 species, natives of S. Brazil, Chile, and Peru. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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