Funtumia
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Funtumia. Funtum is one of the vernacular names of F. elastica). Apocynaceae. Three trees, sometimes very tall, of Trop. Afr., formerly placed in Kickxia, one of them being a rubber tree. F. elastica, Stapf, reaches 100ft., with acylindric trunk and pale spotted bark: lvs. oblong or lance-oblong, undulate: fls. white or yellowish in short-peduncled many-fld. dense cymes, the corolla-tube constricted above the base, the lobes oblong and obtuse; stamens inserted well down in the corolla-tube; disk 5-parted: follicles oblong-clavate, woody. Offered in Eu.; yields the Lagos caoutchouc. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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