Diostea

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Diostea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Diostea (probably two stones or seeds). Verbenaceae. Once referred to Baillonia, but now kept distinct; closely allied to Lippia, but differing widely in habit, in the slender green branches, in the branchlets having very long internodes and being cylindric and hollow. D. juncea, Miers, of the Andes of Chile and Argentina, is a bush or small tree, with the long branches constricted when dry: Lvs. opposite, 1 in. or less long, sessile, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse, crenate, rather fleshy: fls. small, pale lilac, in pcduncled axillary or terminal spikes; corolla tubular, inflated above the middle, hairy inside, with 5 very short rounded spreading lobes; stamens 4, didynamous. B.M. 7695. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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