Stillingia

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Stillingia (for Dr. Benj. Stillingfleet, an English botanist of the eighteenth century). Euphorbiaceae. Shrubs or herbs, chiefly of the American tropics, one rarely cultivated and used in medicine. Glabrous, juice milky: lvs. alternate, simple, short-petioled to sessile, the petiole and bracts biglandulose: fls. in terminal spikes, monoecious, apetalous, the staminate above with the 2-3-lobed calyx imbricate, stamens 2-3, filaments free; the pistillate few, at the base of the spike; ovary 2-3-celled, 1 ovule in each cell: base of the caps. persistent as a 3-pointed piece: seeds usually carunculate.—About 25 species. Related to Sapium and Hura. The root of S. sylvatica is used in medicine. The plant is occasionally grown and will stand temperatures at least to —10° F. It is readily grown from seeds but is not easily transplanted. S. sebiferum – Sapium sebiferum. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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