Polyscias guilfoylei
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Polyscias guilfoylei, Bailey (Aralia Guifoylei, Bull. Nothopanax Guilfoylei, Merr.). Figs. 3114, 3115. Erect glabrous shrub, to 15 ft. and more, not much branched, with bright green usually white-edged foliage: lvs. large, often 16 in. and more long, regularly pinnate, with more or less spotted or lined petiole which is expanded and clasping at base; lfts. stoutly short-petio- late, well separated from each other, ovate to elliptic- ovate to nearly orbicular, tapering or rounded or truncate at base, with distinct and mostly rather remote short teeth which are sharply acuminate-pointed, in the usual cult, forms with white margins or variously white-shaded and blotched: terminal lft. large, often 6 in. long and 5 in. broad. Planted in tropical countries about yards and for screens or hedges, and probably native somewhere in the Pacific Isls.; often called "wild coffee" and "coffee tree," probably from the foliage. It may be seen now and then in greenhouses, although mostly in the smaller and cut- lvd. forms. It appears rarely to produce flowers. Its origin is not traced; by some it is thought to be a modified form of P. pinnata or some related recognized species. P.M. 1874:100.— A. Guilfoylei appears to have been first described in Bull's Catalogue for 1873 under "new plants announced for the first time," as fol-lows: "This fine and distinct ornamental stove plant is a native of the South Sea Islands. It is of shrubby habit, with an erect stem, copiously dotted with lenticular markings, and having pinnate leaves on longish smooth terete petioles, and made up in the case of young plants of from three to seven stalked oblong- elliptic bluntish leaflets which are sometimes obscurely lobed, and irregularly spinose-serrate; these leaflets vary in size from two to three inches long, and are neatly and evenly margined with creamy white, the surface being in addition occasionally splashed with gray." Var. laciniata, Bailey (Panax laciniatum, Hort.), Fig. 3116, has the white margins of the lfts. deeply cut into very narrow spreading divergent teeth. Var. monstrosa, Bailey (Aralia monstrosa and Panax monstrosum, Hort.), has the lfts. irregularly cut and jagged, often very oddly so and of different sizes and shapes, the margins white and deep-toothed : one of the many lf.-forms which are named laciniata, monstrosa, etc. R.H. 1891, p. 225. Gn. 39, p. 565. A form with golden green variegation is Panax monstrosum aureum of the lists. Var. Victoriae, Bailey (Panax Vic- toriae, Rod. Aralia Victoriae, Hort. Nothopanax fruitco- sum var. Victoriae, Merr.). Fig. 3117. A small close- growing plant (as seen in cult.) with much-divided lvs., the lfts. or segms. small and of different sizes and shapes. A good compact form, frequent in greenhouses, which constantly sends up new stalks and yields recurving tasselled light green white-margined foliage; recommended as a good table plant. G.C. II. 19:405. I.H. 31:521.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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