Portlandia

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Portlandia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Portlandia (named in honor of a duchess of Portland). Rubiaceae. Glabrous shrubs and small trees, useful for the ornamental bloom. Leaves opposite, thick-leathery, petiolate, oblong or linear-oblong; stipules between the petioles, connate with the petiole forming a sheath, deciduous: fls. large, 1-3-fld. on axillary peduncles; calyx 5-lobed, persistent; corolla large, subcampanulate or funnelform, 5-lobed; stamens 5; ovary 2-celled: fr. an obovoid-oblong caps., turbinate or clavate, leathery. About 10 species, Mex., W. Indies, but little known as horticultural subjects; probably useful far S. Other species which may appear in cult, are P. coccinea, Swarts, a Jamaican species with scarlet fls. and yellow anthers, and P. grnndiflora. Linn., a native of the W. Indies with white fls.. reddish inside at the throat and 5 in. long, growing 10-14 ft. high. F. Tracy Hubbard ^CH 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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