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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Ichnocarpus

(from ichnos, a vestige, and karpos, a fruit; in reference to the slender follicles.) SYNS. Aganosma, Springia. ORD. Apocynaceoe. A genus comprising nine species of tall climbing stove shrubs, natives of the East Indies, the Malayan Archipelago, Eastern Asia, and tropical Australia. For culture, see Dipladenia. According to Bentham and Hooker, the plants described under Aganosma should be included here.

I. frutescens (shrubby). fl. purple, small; corolla salver-shaped; peduncles axillary, very long, racemose. July and August. l. opposite, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous. Tropical Asia and Australia, 1759.

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