Abutilon longicuspe

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Abutilon longicuspe in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Abutilon longicuspe. White-canescent much- branched shrub, with long-acuminate broad-cordate and blunt-toothed long-stalked lvs., felt-like below: fls. bluish purple, veiny, wide open, on mostly many-branched axillary peduncles. Abyssinia.—Intro, by S. Calif. Acclimatizing Assoc., from seed collected by Schweinfurth and distributed from Berlin in 1893.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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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.

Cultivation

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Propagation

In East Africa various species of Abutilon are grown from cuttings or by layering (Jex-Blake 1957). The plant is also grown from seed.

Pests and diseases

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
• Edible wild plants of Tanzania, by C.K. Ruffo, A. Birnie,& B. Tengnas RELMA, Nairobi, 2002
• The Mountain Flowers of Southern Tanzania, by P.J. Cribb & G.P. Leedal, A.A.Balkema/Rotterdam, 1982
• Kenya Trees, Shrubs and Lianas, by H.J. Beentje, National Museums of Kenya, 1994
• Honeybee Flora of Ethiopia, by R. Fichtl, & A. Adi, Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst, Berlin, 1994
• The useful plants of West Tropical Africa, by H.M. Burkill, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. 2nd Edition, 1997

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