Paederia
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Read about Paederia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Paederia (Latin, paedor, bad smell, referring to P. foetida). Rubiàcese. Tropical shrubby twiners. Slender twining plants, fetid when bruised, with terete flexuous branches: lvs. oppsite, rarely in whorls of 3; petioled: fls. small, mostly reddish or whitish, in axillary and terminal dichotomous or trichotomously branching panicled cymes, with or without bractlets; corolla tubular or funnel-shaped; throat glabrous or villous; lobes 4-5, valvate, with crisped margins, often 3-lobed at apex: fr. a small berry. Distinguished from allied genera by the 2-locular ovary and 2 capillary twisted stigmas.—Species about 25, India, Burma, Malay Archipelago, China, Madagascar, Mex. to Brazil. They are little known in cult., the following being a warmhouse climber. It is sometimes known as Chinese fever-plant. P. Wilsonii, Hesse. A strong climber from China, with hairy branches: lvs. long-petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, to 6 in. long: fls. cream-white with a purple-red eye, less than 1/2 in. across, in a cluster somewhat like that of the lilac; corolla-tube 1/2in. long. This species stood two winters at the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, and blossomed, but was finally winter-killed. L.H.B. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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