Couroupita
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Read about Couroupita in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Couroupita (from a vernacular name in Guiana). Lecythidaceae. Trees of Trop. Amer. (about 9 species) sometimes planted as oddities or for shade, particularly for the curiosity of the great ball-like frs. borne on the trunk. Lvs. alternate, oblong, reticulate, entire or crenate-serrate: fls. showy and odd, borne in racemes, often from the trunk and larger branches: calyx-tube top-shaped, the limb 6-lobed or -divided; petals 6, somewhat unequal, spreading and more or less incurved, borne on a disk; stamens many, in 2 sets,—one series forming a ring or cup in the center of the fl. and about the single 5-7-celled ovary, the other longer and rising from one side like a fringed palm or ladle over the pistil: fr. a large nearly or quite globular ball, coriaceous or woody, indehiscent, with many seeds imbedded in the pulp. C. guianensis, Aubl. Cannon-ball Tree. Figs. 1084, 1085. Tall soft-wooded tree in Guiana, where it is native: lvs. oblong-obovate, elliptic or broad- lanceolate, acute, entire or very obscurely toothed: fls. with concave petals about 2 in. long, yellow- and red- tinged on the exterior and crimson-lilac within, very showy, in racemes 2-3 ft. long: fr. nearly or quite globular, 6-8 in. diam., reddish, hard on the exterior, pulpy inside, with very disagreeable odor when ripe. .M. 3158-9.—Sometimes planted in the tropics, in botanic gardens and elsewhere. Shell of the fr. used for utensils, and the pulp said to be eaten by negroes and to be used for the making of beverages. L.H.B. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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