Calotropis
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Calotropis (from Greek words referring to the beauty of parts of the flower). Aslepiadaceae. Milkweed-like shrubs, or small trees, grown in the American tropics and one species offered in southern California. Branching, glabrous or tomentose-canescent: lvs. opposite, subsessile, broad: fls. with 5-parted calyx glandular inside; corolla bell-shaped or somewhat rotate, 5-parted with broad lobes; crown of 5 narrow fleshy scales adnate to the staminal tube and free and recurved at the base; pollinia solitary in each cell, obovate-oblong and compressed, hanging from the apex: fr. short horned gibbous acuminate pods mostly in pairs; seeds with silky hairs. — Three species in Trop. Asia and Afr., sometimes grown under glass in collections but in this country practically confined to the tropics. The bark of C. gigantea produces a strong fiber, and the acrid milky juice dries into a substance like gutta-percha. The silk on the seeds is used in fabrics by natives: that of C. procera is said to be exported from the Cape Verde Isls. as kapok (kapok is usually from the ceiba or silk-cotton tree).
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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