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"Celastrus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all the botanical works which I have consulted as an hermaphrodite. Asa Gray speaks of the flowers of the American species as perfect, whilst those in the allied genus Celastrus are said to be "polygamo- dioecious." If a number of bushes of our spindle-tree be examined, about half will be found to have stamens equal in length to the pistil, with well-developed anthers; the pistil being likewise to all appearance well developed. The other half have a perfect pistil, with ...
— The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species • Charles Darwin |
Words linked to "Celastrus" : bittersweet, dicot genus, staff tree, oriental bittersweet, magnoliopsid genus, shrubby bittersweet, Japanese bittersweet, Celastraceae, staff-tree family, spindle-tree family, Celastric articulatus, staff vine, false bittersweet, Japan bittersweet, waxwork, American bittersweet, climbing bittersweet, family Celastraceae |
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