Ehretia
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Ehretia (G. D. Ehret, botanical painter, born in Germany, 1708 or 1710, died in England 1770). Boraginaceae. Tender trees and shrubs, found in the warmer regions of the world. Plants with or without rough, short hairs: lvs. alternate, entire or dentate: fls. small, often white, in cymes, corymbs, terminal panicles, or rarely all borne in the upper axils; calyx 5-parted or -cleft; corolla short-funnelform to rotate, with 5 obtuse spreading lobes; stamens 5, affixed in the tube, exserted or rarely included, the filaments very slender; style 2-lobed or -parted: fr. a small drupe, usually containing two 2-celled 2-seeded nutlets.—Species 40-50, the larger number in the Old World tropics, but widely dispersed about the globe. A few species are planted in S. Calif. and perhaps elsewhere along the southern parts.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963