Gnidia

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[hide]Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Gnidia (Gnidus, a place in Crete). Thymelaeaceae. Trees, shrubs or subshrubs, of about 100 species in Trop. and S. Afr. and E. India. Some of them have been grown abroad as greenhouse evergreen woody often heath-like subjects: lvs. mostly small: fls. white, yellow, red or violet, mostly in heads on the ends of the branches; perianth-tube cylindrical, at length detaching above the ovary, the lobes 4 and spreading, with scales in the throat alternating with the lobes; stamens 8; ovary sessile, 1-celled: fr. small and dry, included in the persistent base of the perianth. G. polystachya, Berg. Handsome shrub, to 6 ft., with many graceful pubescent branches: lvs. crowded-imbricate: fls. small, yellow, in terminal heads. S. Afr. B.M. 8001. G.C. III. 41:294. G. tomentosa, Linn. Three to 4 ft.: lvs. ovate or ovate-lanceolate, decussate and sometimes reflexed: fls. yellow, fascicled with the lvs. at the ends of the branches, the tube slender and silky. S. Afr. B.M. 2761. L. H. B. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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