Rhaphiolepis

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

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'Rhaphiolepis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rhaphiolepis/). Accessed 2024-04-20.

Family

Rosaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

alternate: Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
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).
ovary: Lowest part of the carpel containing the ovules; later developing into the fruit.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Rhaphiolepis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rhaphiolepis/). Accessed 2024-04-20.

Rhaphiolepis umbellata in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, New Zealand. 15 November 2023. Image Tom Christian.

A genus of about fifteen species of evergreen shrubs, natives of E. Asia, belonging to the same group of the Rose family as the apples, pears, hawthorns, and quinces, etc. Leaves stout and leathery, alternate, shortly stalked. Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles; petals five; stamens fifteen to twenty; ovary two-celled. The following kinds succeed in a good, well-drained soil.

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