Bosea

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names
	Bosea >

If this plant info box on watering; zones; height; etc. is mostly empty you can click on the edit tab and fill in the blanks!

Read about Bosea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Bosea (after Kaspar Bose, German amateur of plants, at Leipzig, about 1700). Amarantaceae. Syn., Bosia. Woody plants, rarely cultivated for their ornamental crimson berries. Upright shrub: Lvs. petioled, alternate, ovate to ovate- lanceolate, entire: fls. small, with 2-4 bracts at. the base, in terminal spikes or racemes; sepals and stamens 5; petals wanting; ovary with 3 subulate stigmas: fr a 1-seeded berry.—Three species in the Canary Isls., Cyprus and Himalayas. They can be cult. only in warmer temperate regions. Prop, by seeds and probably by cuttings of young wood. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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.

Cultivation

w:Bosea. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
Bosea QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)

This article is a stub. You can help Gardenology.org by expanding it.