Vangueria

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Vangueria in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Vangueria (the Madagascan name of V. madagascariensis is Voa-Vanguer). Rubiaceae. Shrubs or trees, sometimes spiny or somewhat climbing in habit, adapted to the warmhouse and may be hardy in the extreme southern United States. Leaves opposite or rarely pseudo-verticillate in 4's, oval: fls. small, white or greenish, in axillary clusters; calyx 5- or 4-lobed, lobes deciduous or rarely persistent; corolla hairy or not outside, usually furnished inside with a ring of deflexed pilose hairs; lobes spreading or reflexed; stamens 5, rarely 4; disk fleshy or depressed; ovary 5-3-celled; ovules solitary: fr. drupaceous; pyrenes 5-3 in number or putamen 5-3-celled.—About 70 species, tropical and subtropical regions of the world, Austral. excepted. Considered a section of Epimedium by Prantl, in Engler & Prantl, Pflanzenreich III. 2. The voa vanga of Madagascar is a tropical fruit that has been recommended by the American Pomological Society as worthy of cultivation in southern Florida. The fruit is imperfectly described in horticultural writings. It is said to be a delicious berry 3/4 inch thick, but in Mauritius it becomes 1 1/2 inches thick. It is a globose drupe, shaped something like an apple and contains five large "stones" or bony pyrenes. The plant is a shrub 10 to 15 feet high. The species is widely spread in the tropics of the Old World. It was introduced to American horticulture by A. I. Bidwell, of Orlando, Florida. In 1887, the late H. E. Van Deman reported that the shrub grew exceedingly well, sprouting readily from the roots when frozen down. It grows readily from imported seeds. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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