Urera

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Urera in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Urera (derivation not obvious, possibly from uro, to burn, alluding to the stinging hairs). Urticaceae. Trees or shrubs, rarely subshrubs, with stinging hairs usually scattered, one of which has been rarely cult. as an ornamental greenhouse shrub. Lvs. alternate, entire, dentate or lobed, feather-veined or 3-5-nerved; stipules free or more or less connate in one: panicles dichotomous, cymose or irregularly racemose, unisexual: fls. dioecious or rarely monoecious; perianth of male fls. 4-5-parted, segms. ovate, stamens 4-5, ovary rudimentary; perianth-lobes or segms of female fls. 4, subequal or outer smaller, ovary straight or oblique: achenium straight or oblique, compressed or ventricose. —About 40 species, Trop. Amer., Afr., also Mascarene Isls. and Pacific islands. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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