Celsia arcturus

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Celsia arcturus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Celsia arcturus, Jacq. Probably perennial, but sometimes perhaps annual or biennial, differing from C. cretica, among other things, in its long-pedicelled rather than subsessile fls.: more or less woolly, especially below: lvs. all alternate, canescent beneath, short-petioled, lyrate, the terminal segm. large and oblong-obtuse with crenate margins, the later segms. smaller and ovate; cauline lvs. few, oblong and slightly clasping: fls. verbascum-like, yellow, the five spreading lobes obtuse, purple-hairy stamens deflexed and ascending. Crete. B.M. 1962. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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