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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Doliocarpus

(from dolios, deceitful, and karpos, a fruit; fruits, though beautiful, are poisonous). ORD. Dilleniaceae. A genus of mostly climbing shrubs, from tropical America. There are about a score species, very few of which have been introduced to cultivation, or are worth growing. For culture, see Delima.

D. Ca1inea (Ca1inea). fl. white; peduncles lateral, many-flowered. April. fr. a small fleshy shining berry. l. oblong, acuminated, quite entire. Guiana, 1822. Stove climber. (A. G. 221.)

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