Ochna

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Ochna is a genus comprising 86 species of evergreen trees, shrubs and shrublets belonging to the family Ochnaceae. These species are native to tropical woodlands of Africa or Asia. Species of this genus are usually called Ochnas or Mickey-mouse plants, a name coming from the shape of the drupelet fruit. The name of this genus comes from Greek Ochne, a word used by Homer and meaning wild pear.

Some species, especially Ochna serrulata (bird's eye plant), are widely cultivated as a decorative plant.

Read about Ochna in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Ochna (old Greek name for a wild pear, which some of these plants were thought to resemble in foliage). Ochnaceae. Glasshouse woody plants, little grown for the odd showy bloom and fruit. Ochna is a genus of about 25-30 species of trees and shrubs of Trop. Asia and Afr., and a few in S. Afr.: Lvs. deciduous, alternate, minutely serrate, leathery, shining: fls. yellow, rarely greenish, jointed to the pedicels; sepals 5, colored, imbricate, persistent; petals 5-10; stamens indefinite; anthers opening longitudinally or by pore-like slits; ovary deeply 3-10-lobed, the lobes 1-celled, 1-ovuled. and seated around a central disk or receptacle and becoming sessile drupes, styles connate. O. atropurpurea, DC., of the Cape, may occur now and then: shrub, 4-5 ft., with ovate denticulate Lvs.: calyx dark purple, petals yellow; fls. on 1-fld. stalks. J.F. 1:29. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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.

Species

• Ochna afzeli
• Ochna andamanica
• Ochna angustata
• Ochna arborea arborea - Cape plane, plane ochna
• Ochna arborea oconnorii - Transvaal plane, coolbark ochna
• Ochna awrrulata
• Ochna barbosae - sand plane, sand ochna
• Ochna beddomei
• Ochna beirensis
• Ochna brevipes
• Ochna calodendron
• Ochna chilversii
• Ochna ciliata
• Ochna crocea
• Ochna fruticulosa
• Ochna gambleoides
• Ochna glauca - blue-leaved ochna
• Ochna grandis
• Ochna harmandii
• Ochna holstii - red ironwood, red ironwood ochna
• Ochna inermis - stunted plane, boat-fruited ochna
• Ochna integerrima
• Ochna lucida
• Ochna mauritiana
• Ochna mossambicensis
• Ochna multiflora
• Ochna natalitia - Natal plane, showy ochna
• Ochna obtusata
• Ochna parviflora
• Ochna pretoriensis - Magalies plane, Magalies ochna
• Ochna pruinosa
• Ochna pulchra - peeling plane, peeling ochna
• Ochna rufescens
• Ochna serrulata (syn. O. atropurpurea, O. multiflora) - carnival ochna
• Ochna schweinfurthiana
• Ochna thomasiana (syn. O. kirkii)
• Ochna wallichii
• Ochna wightiana

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References

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

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