WorldFloraDB - Edgeworthia gardneri

Characteristics

Trees small, to 3-4 m tall. Stem brownish red; branchlets glabrous or sparsely sericeous at apex. Petiole 4-8 mm, puberulous; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 6-10 × 2.5-3.4 cm, both surfaces appressed pubescent, base cuneate, apex acute; lateral veins 8 or 9 pairs, conspicuous. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, capitate, 3.5-4 cm in diam., 30-50-flowered; peduncle pendulous, 2-2.5(-5) cm, white sericeous at anthesis, glabrescent; bracts caducous, leaflike, narrowly lanceolate. Calyx ca. 15 mm, exterior densely white sericeous; lobes 4, yellow adaxially, ovate, ca. 3.5 × 2.5 mm, abaxially densely sericeous, apex acute or rounded. Disk scale lacerate. Ovary ellipsoid, ca. 5 mm, uniformly densely grayish white sericeous; style pubescent, ca. 2 mm; stigma globose, ca. 3 mm. Drupe ovoid, densely sericeous. Fl. late winter and early spring, fr. summer.

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Branches yellow-brown when young. Leaves: petiole 5–7 mm; blade 8–25 × 2–5 cm, membranous, base cuneate, apex usually acute, rarely obtuse, surfaces sericeous. Flowers fragrant; hypanthium curved, 10–18 mm, outer surface silvery-sericeous or villous; calyx yellow or white, lobes distinct, 2–5 mm; anthers oblong; pistil villous; style 2–4 mm. Drupes ellipsoid to ovoid, 6–8 mm, dry. 2n = 36.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	shrub
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	evergreen
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
Pollination	entomogamy
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Mature height (meter)	2.0 - 2.5
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Environment

Forests, shrubberies and moist places; at elevations from 1,000-2,500 metres, occasionally to 3, 500 metres.

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Usage

Uses	environmental use fiber material medicinal poison wood
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Therapeutic use	Eye diseases (root), Eye diseases (stem)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.

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Minimum temperature (C°)	-15
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