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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Moronobea

(from Moronobo or Coronobo, the Caribbean name of M. coccinea). ORD. Gultiferoe. A genus comprising but one (or perhaps two) species. M. coccinea is a tall tree, with the habit of Platonia. It requires a compost of sandy loam and moderately rough leaf mould. Propagated by cuttings of the ripened shoots, inserted, with the leaves intact, in sand, under a bell glass, in heat.

M. coccinea (scarlet). Hog Gum-tree. fl. white, large, terminal, solitary, hermaphrodite; sepals five, imbricated; petals five, much exceeding the calyx. May. l. oblong, acute at both ends, with an incurved point, coriacaous, dotless. h. 40ft. Guiana, 1825. A fluid pellucid juice issues from incisions in the trunk, which hardens into a valuable medicinal resin. It is said that, in jamaica, hogs, when injured, rub themselves against the tree, in order to become smeared with the juice--hence the common name.

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