Gmelina

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Gmelina in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Gmelina (after one of five distinguished German botanists named Gmelin). Verbenaceae. Trees and shrubs, bearing yellow or brownish irregular flowers sometimes nearly 2 inches across. A very few plants may be cultivated in European warmhouses, and in America only in southern Florida and southern California outdoors. Spiny or not: shoots tomentose: lvs. opposite, entire, toothed or lobed: fls. in panicled cymes or racemes, tomentose at least while young; calyx bell-shaped, shortly 5-toothed or entire; corolla-tube slender below; limb oblique, 5- or 4-lobed; stamens 4, didynamous, nearly exserted: fr. a succulent drupe. — Eight or 10 species from E. Asia and N. Austral. The genus produces a fancy timber similar to teak, which is a product of the same order. Vitex and Clerodendron are better known congeners. ^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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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