Cortaderia Quila

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Cortaderia Quila in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Cortaderia Quila, Stapf (Gynerium Quila, Nees. G. jubatum, Lem. G. arcuato-nebulbsum, Hort.). Differs from pampas-grass in the rather laxer, more graceful plume, with longer, more flexuous, nodding branches, somewhat smaller spikelets, and more delicate glumes, and in the longer, very slender staminodes of the pistillate fls.: plume lavender-colored, 1-2 ft. long, the spikelets 3-5-fld. B.M. 7607. G.C. III. 26:102. Gn. 15, p. 179; 55, p. 93. R.H. 1885, p. 200; 1899:52, 53.—Grows in a dense tuft; perennial, but with biennial culms; the plant has been killed by a temperature of 3° F. Intro, by Lemoine, of Nancy, France. Probable synonyms are Gynerium roseum Rendlateri and G. argenteum carminatum Rendlateri. F.S. 20:2075. Not so well known as C. argentea. A. S. Hitchcock. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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