Pterocarpus

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Pterocarpus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Pterocarpus (Greek, wing fruit; the pods are girded by a broad wing). Leguminosae. Trees or woody climbers without prickles: lvs. alternate, uneven-pinnate; lfts. alternate or irregularly opposite, without stipules: fls. yellow, rarely mixed with violet and white, often showy, in axillary or terminal racemes; calyx turbinate; standard orbicular or broad-ovate, wings obliquely obovate or oblong, keel with its petals resembling or shorter than the wings, free or shortly connate; stamens all connate in a sheath slit above, or both above and below, or the upper one free; ovary sessile or stipitate: pod compressed, indehiscent, orbicular or broad-ovate.—About 45 species, natives of the tropics of both hemispheres. The following species may be in cult, in some greenhouses: P. Draco, Linn., growing 30 ft. high, native of Trop. Amer. P. indicus, Willd., "Burmese rosewood," growing about as high, but a native of the E. Indies. P. Marsupium, Roxbg., a pale yellow-fld. tree reaching a, height of 40 ft. Coro- mandel. P. Rohrii, Vahl, from Trop. Amer., which grows to be 20 ft. high. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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