Pachistima

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Read about Pachistima in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Pachistima (said to be derived from Greek, pachys, thick, and stigma; alluding to the slightly thickened stigma). Spelled also Pachystima and Pachy-stigma. Celastracese.. Ornamental woody plants sometimes grown for their evergreen foliage.

Low evergreen shrubs: branchlets somewhat quadrangular, verrucose: lvs. opposite, small, serrulate or entire, short-petioled, with minute deciduous stipules: fls. perfect, small, in few-fld. axillary cymes; calyx-lobes, petals and stamens 4; ovary 2-celled, often only 1 cell developing into a small, oblong, 1-seeded caps. — Two species in the mountains of N. Amer.; allied to Evonymus.

These are low trailing or spreading shrubs with small evergreen foliage and inconspicuous reddish flowers followed by small dull-colored capsules. They are hardy with slight protection in the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, and are handsome dwarf evergreens for rockeries or rocky slopes; P. Canbyi forms a dense carpet and may be used as a border plant for evergreen shrubberies. They seem to grow in any well-drained soil. Propagation is by seeds or by layers; also by cuttings of half-ripened wood under glass, and P. Canbyi also by division. CH


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