Severinia buxifolia

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Severinia buxifolia, Ten. (Citrus buxifolia, Poir. Limonia bilocularis, Roxbg. Sclerostylis buxifolia, Benth. Atalantia buxifolia, Oliver). A spiny shrub or dwarf tree native to S. China, intro. into cult. in Eu. late in the 18th or early in the 19th century and often considered by botanists to belong to the genus Atalantia, from which it differs widely in the character of the fr. which is a black berry, the ovary walls becoming succulent as the fr. ripens: lvs. simple, obovate-oblong, very obtuse or emarginate, 1 1/2 in. long, having numerous fine veins; spines solitary: fls. axillary, in fascicles or solitary, small, subsessile; stamens 10, free: fr. a true berry, becoming more or less fleshy at maturity, turning black, 2 (or sometimes 3) -celled, each cell containing a single seed, cells not filled with gum or pulp vescicles; seedlings with subterranean cotyledons, first lvs. very small, spirally arranged. Ill. Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald, pl. 81; Penzig, Studi bot. sugli agrumi, Atl., pl. 11, figs. 6-17; Swingle in Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci., Vol. 6, No. 19. 1916.—This plant, which has lvs. resembling the box (Buxus sempervirens) is common in S. China and Hongkong, and occurs also in Formosa. It is grown in botanic gardens and Eu. and has been intro. in this country. It is erroneously listed by some nursery firms as Triphasia monophylla. It is sometimes used as a hedge-plant in La. and other Gulf states, and is well adapted for this purpose, as it does not grow to large size and has very spiny forms that can be prop. from cuttings. It is being tested by the Dept. Agric. as a stock for the cult. citrous frs., as it is able to thrive in soils too salty to permit Citrus to grow. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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