Elaeocarpus

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Elaeocarpus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Elaeocarpus (Greek, olive-fruit). Elaeocarpaceae; formerly included in Tiliaceae. Tropical trees, with showy flowers, in their juvenile stages also sometimes cultivated under glass. Leaves simple, usually alternate; to 50 and 60 ft. high or some of them practically shrubs in cult.: fls. perfect or polygamous, in axillary racemes; sepals distinct, 4 or 5; petals 4 or 5, cut or fringed (rarely entire), attached about a thickened torus; stamens many (rarely 8-12), with long-awned anthers opening by a slit at the apex; ovary 2-5-celled: fr. a drupe, with a large and bony stone, sometimes 1-celled by abortion. —Perhaps 100 species, in the Old World tropics. They are little known in cult, but are sometimes mentioned in greenhouse lists. The pulp of the fr. in some species is said to be edible; and the interesting sculptured stones of some kinds (as of the bead-tree of India, E. Ganitrus, Roxbg.) are used for beads, heads of ornamented pins, and other decorations. They propagate by ripened shoots with the Lvs. left on, and also by seeds when obtainable. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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