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

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'Dirca' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/dirca/). Accessed 2025-04-25.

Family

  • Thymelaeaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

exserted
Protruding; pushed out.
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
'Dirca' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/dirca/). Accessed 2025-04-25.

Dirca

Foliage on Dirca palustris, from Rogów Arboretum, Poland (15 September 2017). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

A genus of two species, both natives of N. America. Dirca is closely allied to the daphnes, from which it differs in the indistinctly lobed perianth-tube and the exserted stamens.

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