Rulingia

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Read about Rulingia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Rulingia (after J. Ph. Ruling, a botanist of Gottingen). Sterculiaceae. Shrubs or subshrubs with stellate tomentum or hairs, useful as greenhouse plants and for the rockery in warm climates, as the southern United States. Leaves entire, toothed or lobed; stipules narrow and deciduous: fls. mostly white, small, in lf.-opposed or terminal, rarely axillary cymes; calyx 5-lobed; petals 5, broad and concave or convolute at base, with a small, broad, or linear ligula at the top; stamens 5 without anthers, linear-lanceolate and alternate with the petals 5 perfect and opposite the petals; ovary sessile, 5- celled: fr. tomentose or beset with prickles or soft setae, loculicidally valvate. About 20 species, all Australian except one from Madagascar. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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