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• Myristica
  ...been grown to any extent in the western hemisphere, the commercial supply of nuts and mace coming mostly from the E. Indies. ...e plan is, take young seedlings and graft, by approach, the thinnest twigs of a female tree.
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• Monodora
  ...ora (Greek, single gift, in allusion to the solitary flowers). Annonaceae. Trees, or shrubs, often with more or less climbing habit. ...slaves. Of the 11 species described by Engler & Diels, all African, 2 are of economic importance. They are little known as horticultural subjects.
  2 KB (313 words) - 23:54, 8 January 2010
• Swietenia
  ...k diameter. The [[leaf|leaves]] are 10-30 cm long, pinnate, with 3-6 pairs of leaflets, the terminal leaflet absent; each leaflet is 5-15 cm long. The le ...Trees, sometimes grown in the warmhouse, one of them yielding the mahogany of commerce: lvs. even-pinnate, very glabrous; lfts. opposite, petioled, obliq
  3 KB (413 words) - 19:08, 22 June 2010
• Isochilus linearis
  ...ogle.com/books?id=to4rytwGiiwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+new+encyclopedia+of+orchids&lr= |accessdate=June 21 2009}}</ref>. ...thick woods, Jamaica, Trinidad, Brazil, etc. I. major, Cham. & Schlecht., of Mex., is taller, fls. larger and darker colored.
  2 KB (255 words) - 22:48, 31 March 2010
• Schinus
  ...r Tree or Christmasberry (''[[Schinus terebinthifolius]]'') are the source of the spice known as [[pink peppercorn]]s<ref>[http://books.google.com/books? ...inous mastic-like juice of some species). Anacardiaceae. Resinous dioecous trees, one much planted in California.
  4 KB (606 words) - 04:02, 21 May 2010
• Syzygium malaccense
  ...); "Otaheite" is an obsolete [[Transcription (linguistics)|transcription]] of "Tahiti". Its [[Hawaiian language|Hawaiian]] name is '''''{{okina}}ōhi{{ok ...[[altitude]]s, from [[sea level]] up to {{convert|2740|m|ft|abbr=on}}. The trees themselves can grow from {{convert|12|-|18|m|ft|abbr=on}} in height. They f
  4 KB (605 words) - 16:56, 23 June 2010
• Amherstia
  ...r a glass, with bottom heat of about 80&quot;. Thrives well in the open in Jamaica. ...for a species (rather than genus), or perhaps Varieties if there is a mix of cultivars, species, hybrids, etc -->
  2 KB (368 words) - 21:05, 12 January 2010
• Brosimum
  ...e [[family (biology)|family]] [[Moraceae]], native to [[tropical]] regions of the [[Americas]]. ...nse]]'') is used for decorative woodworking<ref>Baker (2004)</ref>. Plants of this genus are otherwise used for [[timber]], building materials, and in a
  3 KB (440 words) - 05:33, 18 February 2010
• Pimenta
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...Spanish pimento, allspice). Myrtaceae. Highly aromatic trees, one species of which is the allspice.
  4 KB (588 words) - 09:06, 6 September 2009
• Blighia
  ...uit production. The genus is named for Captain [[William Bligh]] (formerly of the [[HMS Bounty|HMS ''Bounty'']]), who brought samples back to England. ...he tree reaches a height of 30 ft., and is cult. in Jamaica to an altitude of only 3,000 ft., but can endure slight frost. It is also cult, in S. Fla.
  3 KB (419 words) - 19:51, 10 February 2010
• Brownea
  ...Brownea'']</ref><ref name=rhs>Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.</ref> ...lt, in hothouses. B. Ariza, Benth. (B. princeps, Lind.) has drooping heads of scarlet fls. B. grandiceps, Jacq. Fls. red, in capitate spikes: lftsabout 1
  4 KB (520 words) - 05:57, 18 February 2010
• Hibiscus
  ...iscus''''', or '''rosemallow''', is a large genus of about 200-220 species of [[flowering plant]]s native to warm, temperate, subtropical and tropical re ...ed garden and greenhouse herbs and shrubs; in the tropics some of them are trees.
  9 KB (1,361 words) - 18:03, 23 August 2015
• Kola nut
  ...[[South America]]n genus ''Theobroma'' ([[Cacao]]). They are [[evergreen]] trees, growing to 20 m tall, with glossy ovoid [[leaf|leaves]] up to 30 cm long. ...wing of the kola nut can also lead to stained teeth. Among the urban youth of West Africa, kola nut is becoming less popular.
  4 KB (618 words) - 05:44, 7 May 2010
• Selenicereus grandiflorus
  ...Vanilla Cactus'''. The true species is extremely rare in cultivation. Most of the plants under this name belong to other species or hybrids. ...es of ''[[Selenicereus]]'' should be reduced to synonyms of [[subspecies]] of this species, differing merely in degree rather than in kind.
  6 KB (824 words) - 19:37, 25 May 2010
• Mangosteen
  ...tree grows from 7 to 25 m (20–80 [[foot|ft]]) tall. The rind ([[exocarp]]) of the edible [[fruit]] is deep reddish purple when [[Ripening|ripe]]. Botanic ...ort branches mainly on the outside of the tree, and are striking by reason of their persistent large leathery light green calyx-lobes.
  10 KB (1,676 words) - 18:54, 30 December 2009
• Durio
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...zed fruit of the East. Fig. 1366. There are probably a dozen other species of Durio, mostly Bornean and recently described.
  6 KB (914 words) - 12:15, 15 September 2009
• Phyllanthus
  | poisonous = <!--- indicate parts of plants which are known/thought to be poisonous --> ...g apparently borne on leaves). Euphorbiaceae. Mostly shrubs, some herbs or trees, often cultivated in greenhouses for their graceful or curious foliage; som
  6 KB (915 words) - 19:07, 28 August 2009
• Podocarpus
  ...os, foot, and karpos, fruit; alluding to the conspicuous fleshy footstalks of most species). Including Nageia, Prumnopitys and Stachycarpus. Taxaceae. Or ...aluable timber trees in their native countries, and the fleshy seed-stalks of some are eaten.
  16 KB (2,103 words) - 14:26, 16 September 2009
• Tamarind
  ...velopment. The tree is too large to be grown in a container for any length of time. ...en trees that under optimum conditions can grow 80 feet high with a spread of 20 to 35 ft., in its native eastern Africa and Asia. However, in Southern C
  14 KB (2,354 words) - 16:30, 18 April 2010
• Sophora
  ...e book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NJ6PyhVuecwC |title=The Names of Plants |first=D. |last=Gledhill |edition=4 |publisher=Cambridge University ...w]] and the [[Göteborg Botanical Garden]], where the only remaining plants of this species with a documented origin were propagated in the 1960s from see
  8 KB (1,241 words) - 01:38, 3 June 2010

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