Andrachne

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

Recommended citation
'Andrachne' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/andrachne/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

Family

  • Euphorbiaceae

Glossary

alternate
Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
axillary
Situated in an axil.
capsule
Dry dehiscent fruit; formed from syncarpous ovary.
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).
unisexual
Having only male or female organs in a flower.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Andrachne' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/andrachne/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

A group of plants belonging to the spurge family, of which two shrubby species are sometimes seen in cultivation. They have little beauty of flower or fruit, but are rather neat in habit. Leaves alternate. Flowers unisexual, produced in the leaf-axils of the current season’s growth, small, green; the females solitary; males in axillary clusters. Fruit a dry capsule of three divisions, each division two-valved. There are about twelve species known, inhabiting both the New and Old Worlds, but the two following are the only shrubby ones I have seen in cultivation. Neither can be said to deserve a place in gardens except for its botanical interest. They thrive in ordinary loam in full sunshine, and can be increased by cuttings in August.