Callistephus
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Read about Callistephus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Callistephus (Greek words for beautiful crown, said to be in allusion to character of fruit). Compositae. China Aster. (See page 419, Vol. 1.) One species in China and Japan. The genus Callistemma, also erected by Cassini, is older than Callistephus, but the latter is one of the "nomina conservanda" of the Vienna code, retained because accepted and in general use for fifty years following its publication. Under both these generic names, Cassini described the China aster as C. hortensis. It was first named by Linnaeus, however, as Aster chinensu, and Nees subsequently transferred this name to Callistephus, so that the plant now would better bear the name Callistephus chinensis, Nees. Callistephus is closely allied to Aster, from which it differs, among other things, in its pappus, which is minute and forming a crown in the outer series, and of slender longer barbellate and caducous bristles in the inner series: annual, erect, hispid-hairy branching herbs, with showy terminal fl.-heads: Ivs. alternate, adly ovate or triangular-ovate and deeply and regularly toothed; blade decurrent into a petiole, se on the upper parts becoming spatulate or narrower: heads in wild plant heterogamous and radiate, Gray-florets in 1-2 series and pistillate, the diskets perfect and fertile; involucre hemispherical, bracts imbricated in many series and the outers large and green: fr. a compressed achene. The s become much multiplied under cult., and they are o variable in size, shape and color. The colors are violet, purple, blue and white, the rays never being e yellow. Widely variable under cult., and one of the best of the garden annuals, growing from 6 in. to ½ ft. high. It is the Reine-marguerite of the French d the Sommeraster of the Germans. L. H. B.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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