Cystacanthus

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Cystacanthus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Cystacanthus (Greek for bladder Acanthus, because the flowers are inflated). Acanthaceae. Evergreen herbs of Burma and Cochin China, with showy, sessile fls. in the axils of bracts, the entire infl. more or less crowded into a terminal panicle or thyrse. Corolla limb spreading, unequally 5-lobed, the lobes short- rotund; stamens 2; style filiform, the stigma 2-toothed: Lvs. entire: caps, long and narrow, almost 4-sided, many seeded. Doubtfully distinct from Phlogacanthus.— One species is cult. This is C. turgida, Nichols. B.M. 6043 (as Meninia turgida). It comes from Cochin China: 2 ft. or less high, with prominently jointed sts. and opposite, elliptic-lanceolate Lvs.: fls. white, yellow in the throat and pink-reticulated on the lobes. April. Cult. as other warmhouse acanthads. (See Aphelandra for example.) Prop, by cuttings of young wood. There are 4 or 5 species of Cystacanthus in farther India. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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