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'''''Ochrosia''''' is a genus of [[flowering plant]] in the [[Asclepias|milkweed]] family, [[Apocynaceae]].
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Ochrosia (name records the pale yellow color of the fls.). Apocynaceae. Fifteen or more trees, extending from the Mascarene Isls. eastward to Hawaii, little known to cult.: Lvs. scattered, whorled or opposite, with numerous nerves, coriaceous, entire, often large: fls. in peduncled cymes, of medium size, often very fragrant, mostly white, yellowish or cream-colored; calyx small, glandless, deeply 5-cleft; corolla salver- form, the tube cylindrical and dilated at point of insertion of stamens, the throat constricted and glabrous; disk small or wanting: carpels 2, distinct or connate at base, ripening into spreading few-seeded or 1-seedcd drupes.—The species are grown somewhat in tropical countries for the ornamental foliage and frs.
Ochrosia (name records the pale yellow color of the fls.). Apocynaceae. Fifteen or more trees, extending from the Mascarene Isls. eastward to Hawaii, little known to cult.: Lvs. scattered, whorled or opposite, with numerous nerves, coriaceous, entire, often large: fls. in peduncled cymes, of medium size, often very fragrant, mostly white, yellowish or cream-colored; calyx small, glandless, deeply 5-cleft; corolla salver- form, the tube cylindrical and dilated at point of insertion of stamens, the throat constricted and glabrous; disk small or wanting: carpels 2, distinct or connate at base, ripening into spreading few-seeded or 1-seedcd drupes.—The species are grown somewhat in tropical countries for the ornamental foliage and frs.
==Varieties==
==Species==
Species include:
* ''[[Ochrosia borbonica]]'' <small>[[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|J.F.Gmel.]]</small> ([[Mauritius]] and [[Réunion]])
* ''[[Ochrosia compta]]'' <small>[[Karl Moritz Schumann|K.Schum.]]</small> - ''Hōlei'' ([[Maui]], [[Oahu]], [[Molokai|Moloka{{okina}}i]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.hawaii.edu/~eherring/hawnprop/och-comp.htm |title=Ochrosia compta |work=Hawaiian Native Plant Propagation Database |publisher=[[University of Hawaii at Manoa|University of Hawaii at Mānoa]] |accessdate=2009-03-14}}</ref>
* ''[[Ochrosia fatuhivensis]]'' <small>[[Francis Raymond Fosberg|Fosberg]] & [[Marie-Hélène Sachet|Sachet]]</small> ([[French Polynesia]])
* ''[[Ochrosia grandiflora]]'' <small>Boit.</small> ([[New Caledonia]])
* ''[[Ochrosia haleakalae]]'' <small>[[Harold St. John|H.St.John]]</small> - ''Hōlei'' (Maui, [[Hawaii (island)|island of Hawaii]])
* ''[[Ochrosia kauaiensis]]'' <small>H.St.John</small> - ''Hōlei'' ([[Kauai]])
* ''[[Ochrosia kilaueaensis]]''<small>H.St.John</small> - ''Hōlei'' (island of Hawaii)
* ''[[Ochrosia nukuhivensis]]'' <small>Fosberg & Sachet</small> (French Polynesia)
* ''[[Ochrosia tahitensis]]'' <small>[[Jean Marie Antoine de Lanessan|Laness.]] ex [[Marcel Pichon|Pichon]]</small> (French Polynesia)
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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