Platonia
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Read about Platonia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Platonia (from a personal name). Guttiferae. Trees,little known as yet in cult.: lvs. leathery, closely and finely feather-veined: fls. large, rose, solitary, terminal, perfect; sepals 5, imbricate; petals 5, much larger than the calyx, scarcely convolute into an ovoid corolla; stamens 5; ovary 5-celled: fr. a fleshy indehis- cent 5-celled edible berry. Two species from Brazil. P.insignis, Mart. Large tree: lvs. coriaceous, oblong, acute: fls. solitary, terminal, showy; sepals suborbicu- late, 2 outer smaller; petals broad-ovate, rose outside, white inside; ovary ovoid: berry subglobose or oval. Brazil. Intro, and distributed by the U.S.Dept. of Agric. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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