Bosea

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Read about Bosea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Bosea (after Kaspar Bose, German amateur of plants, at Leipzig, about 1700). Amarantaceae. Syn., Bosia. Woody plants, rarely cultivated for their ornamental crimson berries.

Upright shrub: Lvs. petioled, alternate, ovate to ovate- lanceolate, entire: fls. small, with 2-4 bracts at. the base, in terminal spikes or racemes; sepals and stamens 5; petals wanting; ovary with 3 subulate stigmas: fr a 1-seeded berry.—Three species in the Canary Isls., Cyprus and Himalayas. They can be cult. only in warmer temperate regions. Prop, by seeds and probably by cuttings of young wood.


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