Pinckneya

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Pinckneya in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Pinckneya (Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of South Carolina, 1746-1825, distinguished statesman and general of the American Revolution). Rubiaceae. This includes the fever tree or Georgia bark, a tall shrub or small tree with fls. in large terminal or axillary cymes, native to the marshy banks of streams in the pine barrens from S. C. to Fla. Its showy fl.-cluster attains a breadth of 4 in. and depth of 3 in., with as many as 20 fls., each 1 in. long, tubular, white, speckled red, with 5 revolute lobes. But the distinctive feature of the fever tree, both botanically and horticulturally, is the presence of 5 or more large showy colored floral lvs. These are 2 in. long, 1-1 3/4 in. wide, oval or roundish, acute, narrowed at the base, and peach-yellow margined with rosy red. The interesting feature of these floral lvs. is that they are not bracts, but modifications of one of the calyx-lobes, which are normally small and awl- shaped. Only one other species of this genus is described, P. ionantha from Colombia. The fever tree has been cult, in Eu. under glass, but it is rarely successfully cult, in Amer. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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