Securinega

Plant Characteristics

Origin:	✈	?

Cultivation

Exposure:	☼	?"?" is not in the list (sun, part-sun, shade, unknown) of allowed values for the "Exposure" property.
Water:	◍	?"?" is not in the list (wet, moist, moderate, dry, less when dormant) of allowed values for the "Water" property.

Scientific Names

Read about Securinega in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Securinega (Latin, securis, hatchet, and negare, to refuse, alluding to the hard wood). Euphorbiaceae. Shrubs sometimes grown for the bright green foliage. Deciduous: lvs. alternate, short-petioled, entire, stipulate: fls. dioecious or monoecious, apetalous, axillary, the pistillate solitary or few, the staminate in fascicles; sepals 5; stamens usually 5, with a 5-lobed disk at the base: pistillate fls. with entire disk; ovary 3-celled, with 3 2-lobed styles: fr. a 3-lobed dehiscent caps., 3-6- seeded.—About 10 species in temperate and subtropical regions of S. and Cent. Amer., Asia, Afr., and S. Eu. The species in cultivation are bushy round shrubs with slender wand-like branches, rather small bright green foliage, inconspicuous greenish white flowers in axillary clusters or solitary and with small subglobose greenish capsules. They have proved fairly hardy at the Arnold Arboretum, usually only the tips of the young branchlets being winter-killed, and do not seem particular as to the soil. Propagation is by seeds which are usually freely produced when the two sexes are present, and by greenwood cuttings under glass. S. flueggeoides, Muell. Arg. (S. japonica, Miq.). Very similar to S. ramiflora: branchlets soon becoming brown or purple: lvs. usually more obtusish: pistillate fls. 2-5. Japan, Korea, N. and Cent. China. —S. Leucopyrus, Muell. Arg.-Fluggea Leucopyrus. CH 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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.

Cultivation

Do you have cultivation info on this plant? Edit this section!

Propagation

Do you have propagation info on this plant? Edit this section!

Pests and diseases

Do you have pest and disease info on this plant? Edit this section!

Gallery

If you have a photo of this plant, please upload it! Plus, there may be other photos available for you to add.

• 

  photo 1

• 

  photo 2

• 

  photo 3

References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

External links

• w:Securinega. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
• Securinega QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)