Marcgravia

Marcgravia subsp. var.
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Marcgravia (Georg Marcgraaf, born 1610, a very early writer on Brazilian natural history). Sometimes spelled Marcgraavia and Marcgrafia. Marcgraviaceae; by some authorities included in Ternstroemiaceae. Climbing epiphytic shrubs, one of which is offered abroad as a warmhouse plant: lvs. entire, short-stalked, coriaceous: fls. in terminal umbels or racemes, the corolla cap-like and falling as a single piece; sepals 6, 2 smaller; stamens mostly many (sometimes as few as 12): fr. globose to ovoid, more or less fleshy, with numerous seeds. Species probably 40, many of them recently described in Trop. Amer. M. umbellate, Linn., W. Indies and S. Amer., is a polymorphous plant, the sterile shoots creeping and rooting: lvs. on the rooting shoots distichous, nearly sessile, cordate and emarginate, on the other shoots oblong to linear: fls. greenish, umbellate: fr. with red pulp: clings to trees by roots. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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