Ternstroemia
Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
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Features: | ✓ | evergreen |
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Ternstroemia is a genus of plant in family Theaceae.
Read about Ternstroemia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Ternstroemia (named for Christopher Ternstroem, Swedish naturalist; died 1745). Ternstroemiaceae. Evergreen trees or shrubs, adapted to the warmhouse. Lvs. leathery, entire or serrate-crenate: peduncles 1-fld., recurved, axillary or lateral, solitary or somewhat fascicled, 2 bracteoles below the fl.: sepals 5; petals 5; stamens numerous; ovary 2-3-celled (sometimes imperfectly so): fr. indehiscent.—About 45 species, warmer Asia, Indian Archipelago and Trop. Amer. CH
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Species
It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):
- Ternstroemia bullata, Proctor
- Ternstroemia calycina, F. & R.
- Ternstroemia cleistogama, Kobuski
- Ternstroemia corneri, H. Keng
- Ternstroemia evenia, (King) A.C. Smith
- Ternstroemia glomerata, Proctor
- Ternstroemia granulata, Krug & Urb.
- Ternstroemia gymnanthera, cultivated as an evergreen shrub in subtropical areas, and has escaped cultivation in some[1][2]
- Ternstroemia howardiana, Kobuski
- Ternstroemia japonica
- Ternstroemia landae, Standley & L.O. Williams
- Ternstroemia luquillensis, Krug & Urban
- Ternstroemia maclellandiana, Ridl.
- Ternstroemia penangiana, Choisy
- Ternstroemia polypetala, Melchior
- Ternstroemia subsessilis, (Britt.) Kobuski
- Ternstroemia wallichiana, (Griffith) Engl.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
- w:Ternstroemia. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Ternstroemia QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)
- ↑ Ternstroemia gymnanthera, NC State Plant Fact Sheets
- ↑ #250 Ternstroemia gymnanthera