Leucophyta

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Read about Leucophyta in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Leucophyta (white plant, a Greek compound). Compositsae. One species, L. Brownii, Cass., is offered abroad among coolhouse plants and is used in carpet- bedding for the white herbage. It is a much-branched rigid little white-woolly shrub (about 1 ft. high) from Austral.: leaves alternate, linear, obtuse, very short and small (seldom 1/6 in. long): heads small and collected in globular clusters 1/3 - 1/2 in. diam., the clusters surrounded by a few floral leaves: pappus of 8-10 plumose-ciliate scales which are slightly united at the base. The plant is of easy cultured; propogation by cuttings. It may be wintered in a frame or coolhouse. The genus Leucophyta, with its single species, is usually united with Calocephalus, the above plant then becoming C. Brownii,F. Muell. The two genera were founded by Robert Brown at the same time. (Trans. Linn. Soc. XII: 106), but Calocephalus occurs first on the page. He separated Leucophyta because it differs in having a general involucre consisting of a few short bracts, in having the scales of the partial involucres concave and bearded at top, and in the pappus being plumose throughout its entire length. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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