Jacksonia

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Cultivation

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Read about Jacksonia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Jacksonia (named for George Jackson, a Scotch botanist). Syn. Piptomeris. Leguminosae. Stiff, leafless shrubs or subshrubs, sometimes grown as greenhouse subjects: branchlets often phyllodineous or lf .-like, very much branched and spinescent: lvs. replaced by very minute scales at the nodes: fls. yellow, or yellow and purple, in terminal or lateral racemes or spikes, or scattered along the branches: bracts small, scale-like. About 40 species, principally in W. Austral. Jacksonias are rarely seen in cult. They thrive in loam and peat soil. Prop, by cuttings from half-ripened shoots, rooted in sand, during April. J. sericea, Benth. A large shrub, decumbent, ascending or tall, with pendulous branches: fls. solitary or in irregular, terminal, loose racemes; calyx-lobes linear, about as long as the corolla. W. Austral. L.H.B. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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