Mitraria

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Read about Mitraria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Mitraria (from the mitre-shaped pods). Gesneriaceae. One Chilean scandent shrub, prized for its bright scarlet flowers. Leaves opposite, usually small, few-toothed: fls. stalked, solitary in the axils: calyx relatively small, free, 4-5-parted, with 2-lobed large bracts; corolla-tube much exceeding the calyx, ventricose and contracted near the top, the 5 lobes nearly equal; stamens 4, attached near the bottom of the corolla. M. coccinea, Cav., is the only species: lvs. ovate and acute: fls. about 1 ½ in. long, pendent on peduncles much exceeding the lvs. Chile. B.M. 4462. F.S. 4:385. J.H. III. 48:471. G. 5:464; 36:817.—It is a dense-growing sub- scandent evergreen greenhouse plant (standing out- of-doors in parts of England), of easy cult., blooming in summer and autumn. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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