Meratia

Plant Characteristics

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Read about Meratia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Meratia (after Francois Victor Merat, French physician and botanist, 1780-1851). Syn., Chimonanthus. Calycanthaceae. Ornamental shrubs, grown chiefly for their early sweet-scented flowers; grown out-of-doors. Deciduous or evergreen, with scaly winter-buds: lvs. opposite, without stipules, short-petioled, entire: fls. long before the lvs., on scaly branchlets axillary on branches of the previous year, with numerous imbricate sepals and without petals; stamens 5 or 6, short, with innate anthers; pistils many, inclosed in a hollow receptacle which develops into a caps.-like fr. with numerous achenes.—Two species in China. Often united with Calycanthus, which is easily distinguished by its naked winter-buds and the numerous stamens of the fls. which appear at the end of leafy shoots. The species in cultivation is a deciduous shrub, in milder climates nearly evergreen, with generally oblong lustrous leaves and with fragrant yellow flowers with purple center appearing before the leaves in early spring. It is hardy about as far north as Philadelphia and likes a warm and sheltered position. See Calycanthus for cultivation and propagation. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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