Accession #: 200202488
Accession Date: 2002-11-18
Common name: Gulf Graytwig
Family: Schoepfiaceae
Synonym(s):
Country of Origin: Florida
Description: Shrubs or trees, 1.3â7(â9) m; bark whitish, corky, fissured; branches striate, olive green to whitish, slender. Leaf blades lanceolate, ovate, or elliptic, 4â8 Ã 2â4 cm, brittle, base cuneate-attenuate to obtuse, apex acuminate, both surfaces shiny, Âą tuberculate; venation brochidodromous, midrib sunken on both surfaces, lateral veins 4â6 pairs. Inflorescences 1â2 per axil, each a 2â3-flowered cyme or solitary flower; peduncle 1â4 mm. Flowers of two forms, pin and thrum; calyx rim entire or slightly lobed, 1 mm; corolla tube yellow or orange and lobes pink to red, urceolate to cylindric, 4.5 mm (pin flowers), cylindric to campanulate, (3.5â)4(â5) mm (thrum flowers); stigma 2â3-lobed, at or distal to included anthers (pin flowers) or proximal to exserted anthers (thrum flowers); ovary 2-locular in 4-merous flowers, 3-locular in 5-merous flowers. Drupes pink, orange, or red, subovoid to ellipsoid, (7â)10â13 Ã (6â)7â8 mm, with persistent rim of corolla at apex.2
Uses:
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USDA Zone: 9-11?
Source: Marcia Kirinus - Duke
Provenance:
Duke# 02-085 Seed collected by Jay Horn, Key Largo, Florida
Restrictions:
Culture:
Parasitic, forms root haustoria. Appears to grow in cultivation without a host, but perhaps would do better with a host of some sort? Seasonally drier October through May, mark with water when dry labels for that time period.