The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Calliandra (Eighty species of this genus)

Of the eighty species of this genus, one is a native of the East Indies, and the rest are all tropical or sub-tropical American. To those described on p. 242, Vol. I., the following should now be added: C. tergemina (threefold). fl. white, disposed in globose heads; filaments tipped red. Spring. l. pinnate, grey-green. Branches zigzag. Tropical America, 1887.

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