Duvalia
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Read about Duvalia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Duvalia (for Duval, an early botanist). Asclepiadaceae. About 20 succulent very dwarf leafless herbs, mostly of S. Afr., rarely seen in cult.: sts. decumbent or erect, sometimes subterranean and with the tips appearing above the surface, 4-6-angled and with spreading teeth, each of which bears a minute rudimentary lf.: fls. solitary or in small clusters or cymes, usually borne near the middle of the young sts.; corolla rotate, deeply 5-lobed, with a cushion-like ring around the outer corona and supporting it; corolla-lobes linear lanceolate to ovate, folded longitudinally backward; corona double, from near the top of the staminal column, the outer one flat and entire and angled, the inner one with turgid more or less pointed lobes; stamens affixed in the base of the corolla, united into a tube around the ovary: fr. erect smooth follicles. Cult. of Stapelia and similar succulents. The species are essentially fancier's plants and apparently not in the trade. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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