Thibaudia
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Read about Thibaudia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Thibaudia (named for Thiebaud de Berneaud, a French botanist). Ericaceae. Shrubs with the st. sometimes tall-climbing: lvs. alternate, persistent and leathery: fls. in numerous many-fld. axillary racemes, scarlet; calyx 5-lobed or 5-toothed; corolla, tubular, contracted at the mouth, 5-lobed; stamens 10; ovary 5-celled: berry small, globose, 5-celled. About 20 species, Trop. Amer. Probably none of the true Thibaudias is common in cult., although the two following species have been grown. T. floribunda, HBK., with grayish branches, oblong-lanceolate lvs. and glabrous fls. in solitary raceme. Peru. T. pichinchensis, Benth., growing 6-12 ft. high, with lvs. 3-4 in. long and oval-oblong or sublanceolate and the calyx scurfy-tomentose. Ecuador. T. acuminata, Wall., is correctly Corallobotrys acuminata, Hook. f. (Epigynium acuminatum, Klotzsch). Shrub 2-4 ft. high: branches thick: lvs. alternate, petioled, 5 x 1 1/2 in., sometimes 10 x 2 3/4 in., lanceolate, base cuneate, glabrous: fls. red, in axillary corymbs; calyx-tube cinereous pubescent or glabrous, 5-lobed; corolla glabrous or glandular-puberulent outside, small, 5-toothed. India. B.M. 5010. T. glabra, Griff.-Agapetes glabra.—T. macrantha, Hook.-Agapetes macrantha. J.F. 1:95. R.B. 26:181.—T. pulchra, Hort., is offered in the trade as an orange-red-fld. form. This may be the same as T. pulcherrima, Wall., which equals Agapetes variegata.— T. setigera. Wall.-Agapetes setigera. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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