Neolitsea

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

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

Family

  • Lauraceae

Species in genus

Glossary

inflorescence
Flower-bearing part of a plant; arrangement of flowers on the floral axis.
alternate
Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
berry
Fleshy indehiscent fruit with seed(s) immersed in pulp.
androdioecious
With only male or only hermaphrodite flowers on individual plants.
perianth
Calyx and corolla. Term used especially when petals and sepals are not easily distinguished from each other.

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Credits

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

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

A genus of about sixty species of evergreen, dioecious trees or shrubs in E. Asia and Indo-Malaysia. Leaves alternate, usually three-veined from near the base. Inflorescence umbellate. Flowers with four perianth-segments, the males usually with six, rarely eight, stamens. Fruit a berry.

From the Supplement (Vol.V)

N. sericea has been reintroduced from South Korea and there are now young plants at Wakehurst Place, Sussex, and in other collections. It is not reliably hardy ouside the milder parts, and certainly needs a sheltered position. For plants in the Ventnor Botanic Garden, Isle of Wight, see The Garden (Journ. R.H.S.) Vol. 108, p. 157 (1983).