Crossosoma
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Read about Crossosoma in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Crossosoma (Greek, referring to a fringe-like body on the seeds). Ranunculaceae; by Bentham & Hooker referred to Dilleniaceae, and by Engler made the type of the family Crossosomataceae. Four much- branched woody plants of Mex., Ariz, and S. Calif.: very glabrous, with grayish bark and whitish wood: lvs. oblong or narrower, entire, alternate, nearly or quite sessile, some of them fascicled: fls. mostly white, solitary and short-stalked at the ends of the branchlets. C. californicum, Nutt., has been mentioned in gardening literature abroad: 3-15 ft. high: Lvs. 1-3 in. long, not much fascicled: fls. large, with nearly orbicular white petals more than ½in. long, the anthers long-oblong: follicles ¾in. or more long, many-seeded. Isl. of Santa Catalina. C. Biaehvii, Wats., is lower, the Lvs. mostly fascicled and fls. only half as large, the petals white or purplish. Ariz, to S. E. Calif. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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