Citharexylum

Plant Characteristics
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Scientific Names

Read about Citharexylum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Citharexylum (Zither-wood: used for the making of certain musical instruments). Verbenaceae. Shrubs or trees, sparingly planted in southern California, and perhaps elsewhere South for ornament. Spiny or unarmed, tomentose or glabrous, with opposite entire serrate often spinose-dentate lvs.: fls. white or sometimes yellow, odorous, small, in spiciform terminal or axillary racemes; calyx 5-toothed or -lobed; corolla-tube cylindrical, the limb broad and 5-lobed, the lobes spreading and obovate; stamens 5, included, one of them abortive, the 4 polliniferous ones didynamous; ovary more or less 4-celled, each cell 1-seeded; style often 2-lobed: fr. a fleshy drupe, partly inclosed in the calyx.—About 20 species, Mex. to S. Amer. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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