Kennedya

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Read about Kennedya in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Kennedya (Kennedy, of the nursery firm of Kennedy & Lee, important English nurserymen of the latter part of eighteenth century). Leguminosae. Woody trailers or twiners, making excellent plants for the intermediate house or conservatory. Perennials, usually pubescent or villous, prostrate and trailing or climbing, the st. more or less woody: lvs. mostly pinnately 3-foliolate, sometimes with 5 lfts. or even reduced to 1, the lfts. stipellate, entire or somewhat 3-lobed: fls. papilionaceous, red to almost black, disposed in pairs, umbels or racemes, or sometimes solitary; calyx 2-lipped by the cohesion of 2 upper lobes; standard orbicular or obovate, narrowed to a claw, and bearing minute auricles; wings falcate, joined to the incurved keel; stamens 9 and 1: pod linear, flattened or cylindrical, 2-valved with pithy divisions between the seeds.—Species about a dozen, in Austral. Closely allied to Hardenbergia, but differs in the larger red or red-black rather than white or blue fls., and characters of keel and infl. These genera belong to the Phaseolus tribe. The species are known mostly as glasshouse subjects. They propagate with ease from seeds, and also from cuttings of firm green wood; they require an intermediate temperature. Insects are likely to trouble them. They are mostly spring and summer bloomers, and should rest in winter. Give plenty of water during summer. They should be given support; they grow from 3 to 10 feet high, making stiff, woody stems. They may be trimmed back freely when at rest. The taller kinds, like K. rubicunda and K. coccinea, are excellent for rafters. K. nigricans is an old garden plant, still grown in this country under the name of Lotus nigricans. Well-rooted plants may be planted permanently in the greenhouse border. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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