Epigaea

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Epigaea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Epigaea(Greek, epi, upon, gaia, earth; in reference to the trailing growth). Ericaceae. Evergreen spring- blooming plants, herbaceous in appearance but with woody creeping stems, sometimes planted. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, leathery: fls. usually dioecious, sometimes perfect, in short terminal or pseudo-axillary spikes, each in the axil of a green bract and with 2 green bractlets; sepals 5, green; corolla pink or white, salver-shaped, with 5 lobes; stamens 10, attached to the base of the corolla-tube, the 2-celled anthers dehiscing by slits not, as is usual in the Ericaceae, by pores; style columnar; stigma 5-lobed; ovary densely hairy, 5-celled, with many ovules: fr. depressed- globose, fleshy, dehiscent along the partitions, the many minute seeds set on the surface of the white succulent placentae.—Two species, N. E. Amer. and Japan. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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