Pleiocarpa
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Read about Pleiocarpa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Pleiocarpa (Greek, many fruits). Apocynaceae. Glabrous shrubs or small trees, grown under glass for the bloom: lvs. opposite or ternate, leathery: fls. in sessile axillary and often opposite clusters, very rarely in compact panicles or false umbels; calyx small, glandular; sepals 5, almost or quite free, obtuse or acute; corolla salver-shaped, tube slightly widened below the mouth, lobes 5, overlapping to the left; carpels 2-5, distinct: fr. fleshy, berry-like mericarps, leathery when dry, 1- or 2- (rarely 3-) seeded. About 10 species, Trop. Afr. P. mutica, Benth. Shrub 5 ft. high: lvs. opposite, elliptic or oblong, 3-6 in. long, thinly coriaceous: fls. in dense axillary, globose clusters; sepals ovate; corolla pure white, tube cylindric, 2/3 to Kin. long, lobes ovate or oblong. B.M. 8343. G.C.III. 49:242. Cult, in botanic gardens abroad.' The plant likes heat and moisture and about the same treatment as given ixoras. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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