Ormosia

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Read about Ormosia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Ormosia (from Greek, for necklace: the brilliant seeds of some species used as beads). Leguminosae. Necklace Tree. Trees, around the world in the tropics, of 40 or more species, bearing large panicles or racemes of white, lilac or black-purple papilionaceous fls., and often handsomely colored seeds, planted sometimes in warm countries: calyx more or less 2-lobed, the 2 upper teeth being somewhat connate: standard very broad, the wings obovate-oblong and oblique; stamens free and unequal; stigma lateral: pod leathery, woody, or fleshy, oblong to linear and compressed, wingless and 2-valved, sometimes septate: Lvs. odd-pinnate, with coriaceous lfts. Other species do not appear in accessible lists, but they may be sparingly in cult. O. coccinea. Jacks., of 8. Amer., is in horticultural literature: lfts. ovate, the margins revolute: fls. blue: pod glabrous and shining; seeds scarlet, with black spot. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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