Erlangea

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Erlangea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Erlangea (bears the name of the University of Erlangen). Compositae. One species of this genus, blooming in midwinter and spring, is offered in England. The genus was long considered to be monotypic, but Moore has recently (Jour. Bot. 46. 1908) incorporated Bothriocline with it, and the new species have expanded the genus to 32 species, all Trop. African excepting 1 in New Guinea: it differs from Vernonia "only in the curious reduced achenes and the pappus of few, short, very caducous setae." E. tomentosa, Moore (Bothriocline Schimperi var. tomentosa, Oliv. & Hiern). Shrub, to 5 ft.: st. and under sides of Lvs. tomentose: erect herb: Lvs. opposite or at top of st. rarely alternate, oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 2-5 in. long, nearly or quite obtuse, rounded at base, serrate, villous: fls. all tubular, about 40 in the head, the heads about ⅖ in. diam., short-peduncled and collected in corymbose panicles; involucre-scales ovate, acute, scarious-margined. Trop. Afr. B.M. 8269. Foliage scented: fls. mauve or lilac, lasting 2 or 3 months in winter; habit of a eupatorium, and requires the treatment given the greenhouse members of that genus. L. H. B. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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