Acrotriche
(from akros, top, i.e., outermost--and thrix, a hair; the tips of the petals are bearded). ORD. Epacrideae. A genus of eight or nine species of dwarf, much branched, ornamental greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Flowers white or red; spikes axillary, short; corolla funnel-shaped; petals with deflexed hairs at apex. Cultivated in an equal mixture of sandy loam and peat, and propagated by cuttings made of the young shoots, pricked in sand, covered with a bell glass, and placed in a cool house; afterwards treated like Epacris. A. cordata (heart-leaved).* fl. white, small, axillary, twin, or solitary.