Pyrularia

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Scientific Names

Read about Pyrularia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Pyrularia (diminutive of Pyrus; alluding to the shape of the fr.). Santalaceae. Oil-Nut. Buffalo-Nut. A shrub in E. N. Amer. and 2 trees in the Himalayas with alternate, deciduous, entire lvs. and greenish fls. in spikes or racemes: fls. subdioecious, apetalous; sepals and stamens 4-5; filaments short; ovary inferior, 1-celled, with 2-3 ovules: fr. a 1-seeded drupe. The species in cult. is P. pubera, Michx. (P. oleifera, Gray). A straggling shrub, to 12 ft., puberulous while young: lvs. short-petioled, obovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, cuneate at the base, minutely punctulate, 2-6 in. long: spikes terminal, few-fld.; calyx 5-cleft: fr. pear-shaped or subglobose, yellowish, about 1 in. long, crowned by the ovate calyx-lobes, containing an acrid oil like the whole plant. May. Pa. to Ga. and Ala. B.B. (ed. 2) 1:641.—Of no particular ornamental value, but botanically interesting; half-parasitic on the roots of Tsuga like Buckleya, which see for cult. Alfred Rehder. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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