Aristea
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Aristea (name refers to the stiff leaf-points). Iridaceae. Mostly blue-flowered spring- or summer-blooming greenhouse herbs or sub-shrubs, and grown in the open far south. Leaves distichous in basal rosettes, those on the st. alternate: fls. clustered in spikes, not lasting; the perianth with a short tube and oblong, spreading, nearly equal segms. that twist up spirally after flowering; stamens short-stalked, borne on the throat of perianth-tube: fr. an oblong or cylindrical 3-valved caps.—About 30 species in Air. Of easy cult. Prop, by seeds and division. Not showy.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963