Funtumia

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Funtumia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Funtumia. Funtum is one of the vernacular names of F. elastica). Apocynaceae. Three trees, sometimes very tall, of Trop. Afr., formerly placed in Kickxia, one of them being a rubber tree. F. elastica, Stapf, reaches 100ft., with acylindric trunk and pale spotted bark: lvs. oblong or lance-oblong, undulate: fls. white or yellowish in short-peduncled many-fld. dense cymes, the corolla-tube constricted above the base, the lobes oblong and obtuse; stamens inserted well down in the corolla-tube; disk 5-parted: follicles oblong-clavate, woody. Offered in Eu.; yields the Lagos caoutchouc. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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