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|Temp Metric=°F
|jumpin=This is the plant information box - for information on light; water; zones; height; etc. If it is mostly empty you can help grow this page by clicking on the edit tab and filling in the blanks!
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Melianthus major, Linn. St. flexuous, glabrous, sometimes 10 ft. or more in height, with a -widely creeping root: lvs. gray, a foot or more long, the upper ones smaller; stipules grown together into one large intra-axillary piece, attached to the lower part of the petiole; lfts. 9-11, 3-4 in. long, 2 in. wide: racemes densely fld., 1 ft. or more in length; bracts ovate, acuminate: fls. red-brown, 1 in. long: caps, papery, 4-lobed at the apex, 1-1 ¼ in. long; seeds 2 in each cell, black and shining. Cape. G.C. III. 36:142. B.R.45. R.H. 1867, p. 131; 1913, p. 413. G.W. 4. p. 37.—An excellent foliage plant. M. intermedius, Hort., is a hybrid between this species and M. comosus.
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==Cultivation==
===Propagation===
===Pests and diseases===
==Varieties==
==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
Image:Upload.png| photo 1
Image:Upload.png| photo 2
Image:Upload.png| photo 3
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==References==
<references/>
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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|genus=Melianthus
|species=major
|Min ht metric=cm
|Temp Metric=°F
|jumpin=This is the plant information box - for information on light; water; zones; height; etc. If it is mostly empty you can help grow this page by clicking on the edit tab and filling in the blanks!
|image=Upload.png
|image_width=240
}}
{{Inc|
Melianthus major, Linn. St. flexuous, glabrous, sometimes 10 ft. or more in height, with a -widely creeping root: lvs. gray, a foot or more long, the upper ones smaller; stipules grown together into one large intra-axillary piece, attached to the lower part of the petiole; lfts. 9-11, 3-4 in. long, 2 in. wide: racemes densely fld., 1 ft. or more in length; bracts ovate, acuminate: fls. red-brown, 1 in. long: caps, papery, 4-lobed at the apex, 1-1 ¼ in. long; seeds 2 in each cell, black and shining. Cape. G.C. III. 36:142. B.R.45. R.H. 1867, p. 131; 1913, p. 413. G.W. 4. p. 37.—An excellent foliage plant. M. intermedius, Hort., is a hybrid between this species and M. comosus.
}}
==Cultivation==
===Propagation===
===Pests and diseases===
==Varieties==
==Gallery==
<gallery perrow=5>
Image:Upload.png| photo 1
Image:Upload.png| photo 2
Image:Upload.png| photo 3
</gallery>
==References==
<references/>
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
==External links==
*{{wplink}}
{{stub}}
__NOTOC__
