Diosma ericoides

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Scientific Names

Read about Diosma ericoides in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Diosma ericoides, Linn. Much-branched, 1-2 ft., leafy: branches and twigs quite glabrous: lvs. alternate, crowded, recurved-spreading, oblong, obtuse, keeled, pointless, glabrous: fls. terminal, 2-3 together, with very short pedicels; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse; petals reddish, elliptic-oblong or obovate, obtuse, narrowed to a short claw, twice as long as the calyx; disk free and 5-lobed. B.M. 2332 under this name is in reality D. vulgaris var. longifolia. G. 33:501. The plant cult. in Calif. as Diosma purpurea belongs to Agathosma (Greek, good odor), differing from Diosma chiefly in the presence of 5 staminodes and in the 3 or 4 carpels; it is A. villosa Willd., a shrub about 1 ft. high with upright branches, spirally arranged upright and imbricate lvs. oblong-lanceolate, ciliate, pubescent beneath, ⅕-⅓ in. long: fls. light purple, in dense terminal heads; pedicels unequal, at least the outer ones not exceeding the lvs. S. Afr. R.B. 5:369 (as Diosma hirta), H.I. 1:4. Another species sometimes cult, as D. purpurea is Agathosma Ventenatiana, Bartl. & Wendl. differing from the preceding species chiefly in the spreading lvs. and in nearly equal pedicels exceeding the lvs. L.B.C. 12:1122 (as Diosma hirta). CH 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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