Helipterum
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Helipterum (Greek for sun and wing; said to refer to the light-plumed pappus). Including Acroclinium and Rhodanthe. Compositae. Half-hardy annual or perennial herbs cultivated as everlastings or immortelles. Flowers mostly perfect, with 5-toothed open corollas: achenes woolly, bearing a pappus of many plumose bristles: involucre glabrous, obovate or top-shaped, silvery or rose-colored: plants mostly glabrous.—About 60 species in Austral, and S. Afr. This and Helichrysum, from which it is distinguished by its plumose not roughened pappus- hairs, are amongst the most important of everlasting fls. The cult, kinds are annual herbs (or grown as such), of easiest cult, in any garden soil.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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