Gastrolobium
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Read about Gastrolobium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Gastrolobium (Greek-made name, referring to the swollen pods). Leguminosae. More than 30 shrubs of W. Austral., little known in cult. Lvs. simple and entire, mostly stiff: fls. yellow or in part purple- red, racemose in corymbs or whorls; calyx 5-lobed; petals clawed, the standard orbicular or kidney-shaped, and emarginate, the wings oblong, and the keel broad and short; stamens free; style filiform, incurved: pod turgid, ovoid or nearly globular. G. velutinum, Lindl. A handsome shrub: lvs. in 3's or 4's, varying from obpvate to linear-cuneate, very obtuse, emarginate, ¾ in. or less long: fls. orange-red, on villous pedicels, in terminal clusters to 1 ½ in. long: pod ovoid, about ¼ in. long. G. cuneatum, Henfr., may be the same as the foregoing, perhaps with longer racemes. J.F. 3:258. G. villosum, Benth. Decumbent with ascending sts.: lvs. opposite, ovate to almost lanceolate, very obtuse, 1-2 in. long: fls. in terminal pedunculate racemes 3-4 in. long; standard orange-red, shorter lower petals purple-red :pod broadly ovoid, about 1/3 in. long. B.R. 33:45. J.F. 4:341. G. ovalifolium, Henfr. Diffuse shrub: lvs. mostly opposite, ovate or oblong or orbicular, 1 in. or less long, often emarginate: fls. nearly sessile in racemes 1-3 in. long, orange or orange-red, the lower petals deeply colored. J.F. 3:247, 324. L. H. B. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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