Rivina

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Read about Rivina in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Rivina (named after A. Q. Rivinus, professor of botany, at Leipzig, 1691-1725). Phytolaccaceae. Erect herbs, shrubby at base, suitable for the warm-house and also useful outdoors as a summer annual. Leaves alternate, slender-petioled, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or cordate-ovate; stipules minute and caducous: infl. racemose, axillary or rarely terminal; fls. small, perfect; perianth 4-parted; stamens 4: berry red, pea-like.—Species 3 (Walter, Engler's Pflanzenreich, hft. 39), native of Trop. and Subtrop. Amer., but intro. into Asia and Afr. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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