Heterotrichum
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Heterotrichum (name refers to the variable hairs on the lvs.). Melastomaceae. Ten or a dozen hispid, or glandular shrubs in Trop. Amer., with white or pink fls. in terminal or lateral panicles; calyx campanulate or globular, with 4-8 teeth; corolla of 6-8 petals; stamens 8-12 or more: lvs. large, ovate or oblong, cordate at base, entire or toothed. H. macrodon, Planch., is sometimes mentioned in horticultural literature. A very handsome shrub, 7-9 ft., flowering when small: lvs. opposite, large, the 2 in the pair unequal, cordate-ovate, abruptly acuminate, serrate, 7-nerved: fls. 10-12 in a terminal cyme, white with red at base of petals, 1 ¾ in. across, the 8 petals obovate and flat-spreading; calyx and young parts hispid or vulous. Venezuela. B.M. 4421. G.W. 14, p. 652.—Requires hothouse treatment. L. H. B.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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