Lapageria

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Credits

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

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'Lapageria' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lapageria/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

Family

Philesiaceae

Species in genus

Lapageria rosea

Glossary

family: A group of genera more closely related to each other than to genera in other families. Names of families are identified by the suffix ‘-aceae’ (e.g. Myrtaceae) with a few traditional exceptions (e.g. Leguminosae).

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Lapageria' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lapageria/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

Lapageria rosea growing as a pot plant at Hortus Leiden, the Netherlands – it is kept under cover over winter. 25 September 2023. Image Tom Christian.

A genus of a single species, native mainly of Chile, named by Ruiz and Pavon in honour of the Empress Josephine of France, first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose maiden name was de la Pagerie. It is a member of a very distinct family of monocotyledons to which also belong Luzuriaga and Philesia, both treated in this work. The family Philesiaceae is confined to the southern hemisphere.

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