Freycinetia

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Freycinetia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Freycinetia. (Chas. Louis de Freycinet, 1779- 1842, French navigator). Pandanaceae. Climbing or straggling shrubs sometimes seen under glass and perhaps planted far S., but apparently not in the American trade. The sts. are often prolonged, rooting: lvs. sheathing at base, the free part long and narrow, carinate, serrate or entire: fls. dioecious, in terminal fascicled spadices surrounded by fleshy leafy often colored bracts; males consisting of several stamens with short filaments; females of many 1-celled many-ovuled densely packed ovaries: fr. an oblong mass of fleshy or hard drupes.—Species above 50, islands of the Pacific, Austral., New Zeal. F. banksii, Cunn., is a tail climber, sometimes attaining the tops of high trees, with many stout branches, the arching lvs. to 3 ft. long and most abundant toward the ends of the branches: fl.-bracts numerous and leafy, the inner ones with thick succulent bases, sweet and often eaten in New Zeal., where the plant is native: fr. rather fleshy, brown at maturity, 1/3 in. long, edible. B.M. 6028. F. cumingiana, Gaud., of uncertain nativity, is more slender, lvs. not arching and divaricate. The freycinetias are little grown indoors as they require much room. They may be used as pillar plants. Prop, by offsets. L. H. B. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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.

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References

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

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