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

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'Fallugia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/fallugia/). Accessed 2021-09-26.

Family

  • Rosaceae

Species in genus

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).
whorl
Arrangement of three or more organs (leaves flowers) around a central axis. whorled Arranged in a whorl.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Fallugia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/fallugia/). Accessed 2021-09-26.

Fallugia

Fallugia paradoxa.

A monotypic genus of the sub-family Rosoideae, allied to Cowania, from which it differs in the larger flowers, an inch or more across; in the more numerous pistils (up to twelve only in Cowania); and in having a whorl of bractlets at the base of the flower, alternating with the sepals.

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