Goethea
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Read about Goethea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Goethea (Goethe, the great German poet, who was also a botanist). Malvaceae. Two Brazilian evergreen shrubs, seldom grown in hothouses. Lvs. alternate, simple, entire or nearly so: fls. showy, in cymes from the leafless sts. or sometimes solitary in the axils, subtended by large cordate red showy calyx- like bracts; calyx 5-toothed, included within the bracts; petals short; stamens united in a column, which is 5-toothed below the apex; ovary 5-cclled, each 1-ovuled. G. strictiflora, Hook. (G. cauliflora, Hort.), is a small shrub or bush with large ovate lvs. sinuate on upper half, and aggregated fls. in yellowish white red-tinged bracts; petals small, obcordate, veiny; calyx whitish or greenish, the lobes ovate-acuminate; fls. on short-peduncles that are aggregated in the axils along the st. B.M. 4677. J.F. 4:365. G. multiflora, Nichols., and G. semperflorens, Necs & Mart., belong in Pavonia. L.H.B. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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