Kopsia
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Read about Kopsia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Kopsia. (Jan Kops, Dutch botanist, 1765-1849). Apocynaceae. A few trees or shrubs (upward of a dozen species), somewhat allied to oleander, grown in warm- houses and also offered (species not given) in S. Fla. Lvs. opposite, very short-petioled: fls. white or pink, in terminal cymes; calyx 5-parted, the segms. with glandular tips; corolla salverform with a very slender tube and a hairy throat; stamens inserted near the top of the tube, not protruding; disk of 2 glands: fr. 2 carpels; 1-celled. coriaceous or fleshy. India and Malaysia to the Philippines. K. fruticosa, A. DC. Large evergreen shrub, with lvs. 4-8 in. long, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate: fls. pink, the tube 1 ½ in. long and limb 1-2 in. across. K. ornata, Hort., shrub from Malaya, with large oblong-lanceolate glossy lvs., and white red- centered salverform fls. in corymbose panicles; apparently not botanically described under this name. L. H. B.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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