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Buckleya (after S. B. Buckley, American botanist, died in 1884 at Austin, Texas). Santalaceae. Shrubs rarely introduced in botanical collections, without particular ornamental qualities, but interesting as one of the few parasitic shrubs successfully introduced into cultivation.

Leaves opposite, sessile, entire: fls. dicecious, apeta- lous; staminate in umbels, with 4 short ovate sepals and 4 short stamens; pistillate solitary, terminal, with 4 short deciduous sepals and below with 4 elongated linear-lanceolate persistent bracts; calyx-tube clávate; style short with 2-4-parted stigma; ovules 3—4: fr. a furrowed drupe. — Three species in China and Japan and 2 in N. Amer.

Only the American species, B. distichophylla, Torr., is in cult. A slender-branched upright shrub, to 12 ft. : Lvs. 2-rankedj ovate-lanceolate or ovate, 1-2 ½ in. long, acuminate, ciliate: fls. small, greenish: fr. an ovoid or oblong-ovoid yellowish green drupe, about 1 in. long, crowned by the 4 persistent bracts. N. C. and Tenn. G.F. 3:237.— Parasitic on the roots of Tsuga. Has proved perfectly hardy in Mass.: there is a plant about 70 years old in the botanic garden at Cambridge. 

It has also been successfully cult, at the Arnold Arboretum and in a few European botanic gardens. Prop, by seeds; best sown with a potted Tsuga in the greenhouse and planted out with its host when the young plants are strong enough, preferably within the reach of the roots of a large Tsuga, in order that the original host may be removed later when it crowds the young buckleya too much.
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->

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