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Read about Gynura in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Gynura (name refers to the tailed stigmas). Compositae. Tropical herbs, sometimes grown under glass for the large showy foliage. Rarely subshrubby: lvs. alternate, entire or lobed, numerous: heads discoid, the florets commonly all fertile, not very showy; involucre cylindrical or somewhat bell-shaped, the narrow bracts in about 1 series: achene narrow, 5-10-striate, with copious slender white pappus-bristles. The gynuras are attractive glasshouse herbs, usually requiring a moderately high temperature; prop, by cuttings. Genus allied to Senecio and Cineraria; of about 40 species in Trop. Afr., Asia, to Austral.
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Other species, but not known to be in the American trade, are: G. auriculata, Cans. (G. ovalis, DC. Cacalia ovalis, Ker). Only slightly villous: lvs. oval, entire or repand, green both aides: fls. yellow, fragrant. China. B.R. 101.—G. bicolar, DC. 2-3 ft., of looser growth than the above, glabrous: lvs. lanceovate, somewhat downy, short-petioled, deep-toothed or pinnatifid, green above and purple beneath: fls. orange. Moluccas. B.M. 5123.—G. ovalis, DC.=G. auriculata.—G. sarmentosa, DC. Climbing, with purple glabrous sts.: lvs. narrow, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, petioted, remotely small-toothed, green and purple-ribbed. Warmhouse plant from Malayan Isls.CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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