Conocarpus
(from konos, a cone, and karpos, a fruit; in reference to the scale-formed fruit being so closely imbricated in a head as to resemble a small Fircone). Button-tree. ORD. Combretaceae. The only species is a stove evergreen shrub. Heads of flowers pedunculate; flowers crowded; petals absent. Leaves alternate, quite entire. This plant thrives in a mixture of loam and peat. Cuttings of firm shoots, taken in April, will root in sand, if placed under a bell glass, in bottom heat.
C. erectus (upright).* fl. white, in panicled heads. l. oblong-lanceolate, tapering to both ends, thickish, glabrous, or, when young, rather downy, biglandular at the base. h. 6ft. to 8ft. Tropical America, 1752.