Beaufortia

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Read about Beaufortia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Beaufortia (Duchess of Beaufort, patron of botany). Myrtaceae. Greenhouse red-flowered shrubs, blooming in spring.

Stiff, more or less heath-like shrubs: Lvs. commonly opposite, small and rigid, often only 1-nerved: fls. in heads or short spikes, sessile; calyx 5-lobed; petals 5, spreading; stamens many, longer than the petals, in bundles opposite each of the petals; ovary 3-celled: fr. a loculicidal caps, borne in the hardened calyx-tube.— Twelve or 13 species in W. Austral. Requires the treatment of coolhouse Australian things, with peaty soil. Prop. by maturing shoots under glass.


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