Gevuina

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Gevuina from the Chilean name). Also written Guevina. Proteaceae. One species, G. avellana, Molina (Syn., Quadria heterophylla, Ruiz & Pav.), sparingly planted in Calif. Chilean Ndt. Chile Hazel. An evergreen tree, with large, alternate odd-pinnate, dark green, glossy lvs. and white, hermaphrodite fls. in long, axillary racemes: sepals 4, deciduous; stamens 4; ovary nearly sessile, 1-celled and 2-ovuled, the style filiform: fr. a somewhat fleshy drupe, about the size of a cherry, coral-red when ripe, the seed having a pleasant-flavored kernel, resembling the hazel in taste and largely used by the Chileans. G.C. III. 40:174. Prop, by seeds or by green cuttings under glass. No trees of bearing age recorded in U. S., although a tree approximately 50 years old is recorded as bearing in Devonshire, England.

W. A. Taylor.

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