Dichotomanthes tristaniicarpa Kurz

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Dichotomanthes tristaniicarpa' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/dichotomanthes/dichotomanthes-tristaniicarpa/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Other taxa in genus

    Glossary

    alternate
    Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
    calyx
    (pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
    capsule
    Dry dehiscent fruit; formed from syncarpous ovary.
    entire
    With an unbroken margin.
    glabrous
    Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
    lustrous
    Smooth and shiny.

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    Credits

    Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

    Recommended citation
    'Dichotomanthes tristaniicarpa' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/dichotomanthes/dichotomanthes-tristaniicarpa/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

    An evergreen tree up to 20 ft high, or a shrub; young shoots densely clothed with white wool. Leaves alternate, oval,pointed, tapered towards the base, entire; 1 to 4 in. long, 12 to 114 in. wide; dark slightly lustrous green and glabrous above, clothed with pale silky hairs beneath; stalk 112 in. long; stipules minute, thread­like, silky, soon falling away. Flowers white, each 14 in. wide, produced during June in terminal corymbs about 2 in. wide. Petals five, rounded; stamens fifteen to twenty, glabrous; calyx five-lobed, woolly outside. The fruit is really a dry oblong capsule 14 in. long, but is almost entirely enclosed by the calyx which remains, enlarges, and becomes fleshy.

    Native of Yunnan, China, and found there by Henry and other collectors; introduced by Forrest in 1917. In outward appearance it much resembles a cotoneaster and the flowers also strongly suggest that genus. The fruit, however, is very distinct on account of the calyx persisting, enlarging and ultimately covering all except its tip. It does not appear to be very hardy at Kew in the open ground, at least when young, but succeeds quite well on a wall. A specimen in the R.H.S. Garden at Wisley, growing in the open in Seven Acres, was badly cut in the winter of 1962–3, though previously never more than slightly frosted. It has little garden value.