Honckenya
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Honckenya (named after G. A. Honckeny, 1724-1805, author of a flora of Germany). Tiliaceae. Trees or shrubs covered with stellate pubescence: lvs. entire or lobed: fls. large, blue-violet, showy, in terminal racemes; calyx of 4-5 sepals; petals 4-5, gland less at the base: caps, oblong, loculicidally 4-8-valved; seeds numerous, horizontal, compressed.—Two or 3 species in Trop. W. Afr. H. ficifolia, Willd., is offered abroad. Shrub, with purplish branches: lvs. cordate, roundish or oblong, more or less deeply 3-7-lobed: fls. numerous, in terminal racemose cymes; sepals 3-5, oblong; petals roundish, stalked; ovary 4-8-celled, with numerous ovules in each cell: caps. 1-2 in. long; valves covered with numerous, spreading ciliated bristles, each terminated by a small, white deciduous point. Guinea. B.M. 7836. —A handsome-fld. shrub. Prop, by cuttings of young wood inserted in sand under glass with bottom heat. Thrives in a mixture of loam and peat. L H. B.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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