Cordia

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Cultivation

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Read about Cordia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Cordia (an early German botanist, Valerius Cordus, born 1515). Boraginaceae. Warm-climate trees, shrubs or almost herbaceous, sometimes planted. Leaves mostly alternate, petioled, entire or dentate: fls. in dense heads or clusters or scirpioid cymes, perfect or polygamous, the corolla usually white or orange; calyx tubular or campanulate, toothed or lobed; corolla tubular, funnelform or salverfonn, lobed, the parts and the stamens 4 or more; style 4-lobed: fr. a drupe which is 4-loculed and usually 4-seeded.—Species about 230 in tropical and subtropical regions, mostly in the western hemisphere. Some of them are vines; some are herbaceous above the base. Species confused. The cordias are greenhouse plants with showy flowers of easy culture. Grown in the open in the extreme South. Propagated by cuttings of firm wood and by seeds. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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