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Trees and shrubs, with simple lvs.: sepals 4, rarely 5; petals usually 4; stamens usually many, inserted on the receptacle, the filaments thread-like and free; ovary long-stalked, 1—4-celled, with many ovules.— More than 150 species distributed throughout the warm regions of the earth. Differing from Cleome and most other cult, genera of the family in having baccate, not capsular, fr.
Trees and shrubs, with simple lvs.: sepals 4, rarely 5; petals usually 4; stamens usually many, inserted on the receptacle, the filaments thread-like and free; ovary long-stalked, 1—4-celled, with many ovules.— More than 150 species distributed throughout the warm regions of the earth. Differing from Cleome and most other cult, genera of the family in having baccate, not capsular, fr.
Capers are pickles mode by preserving the flower- buds of C. spinosa, a straggling shrub which grows out of old walls, rocks, and rubbish in Mediterranean regions and India. Also rarely cultivated as a greenhouse flowering shrub. Propagation is by cuttings of ripe wood, under a bell-jar, in greenhouses, and by seeds South.
Capers are pickles mode by preserving the flower- buds of C. spinosa, a straggling shrub which grows out of old walls, rocks, and rubbish in Mediterranean regions and India. Also rarely cultivated as a greenhouse flowering shrub. Propagation is by cuttings of ripe wood, under a bell-jar, in greenhouses, and by seeds South.
C. acuminata, Lindl. St. shrubby, with flexuose, smooth branches: lvs. petiolate ovate-lanceolate, acuminate: fls. large, solitary, white, the conspicuous stamens 3-4 times as long as the petals. China. B.R. 1320. Wilhelm miller. N.Taylor.
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