Schizocodon
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Read about Schizocodon in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Schizocodon (Greek cut and bell, referring to the fringed corolla). Diapensiaceae. Glabrous herbs, with the caudex perennial and scale-bearing between lvs., suitable for outdoor planting: lvs. all radical, long-petioled, ovate-rotund, base cordate, crenulate-undulate, leathery and persistent: fls. few at the top of the scape, racemose, subsecund, nodding, 1-2-bracted; calyx 5-parted, the segms. linear-oblong, striate-nerved; corolla funnelform, 5-lobed, the lobes truncate, fimbriate, and imbricate; stamens 5; ovary ovoid-globose, 3-celled: caps. globose, 3-angled.—Perhaps 4 species, Japan. S. soldanelloides is a pretty alpine plant or boreal with rosy fls. fringed like the well-known soldanellas of the Alps. It may be readily distinguished from Soldanella (which is a member of the primrose family) by the lvs. being toothed, and the stamens 4 instead of 5. The name "fringed soldanella" has been proposed for schizocodon, but all soldanellas are fringed. "Fringed galax" would be better, as galax is the nearest relative, schizocodon being, in fact, the Japanese representative of the American galax. The lvs. of schizocodon are sometimes more or less bronzy, like those of galax, but their form is not so pleasing. The plant is only a few inches high, and the fls. are borne to the number of 4-6 on a scape. The scapes are numerous and the fls. about 1 in. across. Since 1892 this plant has excited an amount of interest comparable to that caused by the intro. of shortia, in 1889. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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