Thespesia
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Read about Thespesia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Thespesia (Greek, divine; application doubtful). Malvaceae. Trees or tall herbs, grown in the warmhouse, and planted in warm regions. Leaves entire or angulate-lobed: fls. usually yellow, showy; calyx truncate, minutely or bristle-toothed, rarely 5-cleft; ovary 5-celled: caps. woody-coriaceous, loculicidally 5-valved.—About 10 species, Trop. Afr., Asia and the islands of the Pacific, and 1 from Porto Rico. They have the aspect of hibiscus and may be distinguished by the confluent stigmas, more woody caps., and the obovoid compressed seeds. T. grandiflora, DC. Tree, 30-45 ft. high: lvs. ovate, subcordate, apex subacuminate: fls. purple or red, 4-5 in. diam. Porto Rico. The wood is used in Porto Rico for furniture and other purposes and it is recommended for ornamental uses. CH
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Species
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- Thespesia beatensis
- Thespesia cubensis
- Thespesia danis
- Thespesia garckeana
- Thespesia grandiflora
- Thespesia lampas
- Thespesia populnea
- Thespesia thespesioides
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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