Piptanthus

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Piptanthus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Piptanthus (Greek, to fall, and a flower; the teeth of the calyx, petals, and stamens fall off soon). Legum- inosae. Two shrubs natives of the mountains of southern Asia, grown for ornament. Plants 3-10 ft. high: lvs. digitately 3-foliate: fls. racemose, bracted; calyx campanulate, 5-toothed; teeth equal, lanceolate; corolla 3 times longer than the calyx; petals all with long claws; standard orbicular, erect, margins reflexed; wings obovate; keel obovate-oblong, connate down the back, slightly incurved; stamens free; anthers uniform; ovary linear, stalked, downy, 6-10-ovuled; style filiform, incurved; stigma minute, terminal: pod linear, flattened, continuous within. Closely related to Baptisia and Thermopsis, from which it is at once distinguished by having its stipules opposite-connate instead of free or wanting as in those genera. As yet but little known in U. S. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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