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Helipterum (Greek for sun and wing; said to refer to the light-plumed pappus). Including Acroclinium and Rhodanthe. Compositae. Half-hardy annual or perennial herbs cultivated as everlastings or immortelles.
Flowers mostly perfect, with 5-toothed open corollas: achenes woolly, bearing a pappus of many plumose bristles: involucre glabrous, obovate or top-shaped, silvery or rose-colored: plants mostly glabrous.—About 60 species in Austral, and S. Afr. This and Helichrysum, from which it is distinguished by its plumose not roughened pappus- hairs, are amongst the most important of everlasting fls. The cult, kinds are annual herbs (or grown as such), of easiest cult, in any garden soil.
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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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