Alhagi

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Read about Alhagi in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Alhagi (its Mauretanian name). Leguminosae. Shrubs grown for their profusely produced red flowers.

Spiny plants: lvs. alternate, oblong, small, deciduous, entire: fls. papilionaceous, red, small, in few-fld. axillary racemes; calyx campanulate, 5-toothed; pods terete, contracted between the seeds.—Three closely related species from Greece and Egypt to the Himalayas. These plants are low, much-branched shrubs with small and sparse, pale foliage and numerous small red flowers toward the end of the branches. Only the following species, which produces the Persian or alhagi manna, is but very rarely met with in collections. It may be cultivated in temperate regions in dry and sunny positions and propagated by seeds and by greenwood cuttings under glass with slight bottom heat; as a desert plant, it is impatient of too much moisture, and needs special attention, particularly in the seedling state. CH


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