Chiba University Matsudo/Kashiwa Campus Plant Database

Details of genus: Brachychiton Schott & Endl. [667]

genus_ja:

genus_en: Bottletree, Kurrajong

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accepted: Accepted

Family: Malvaceae

family_ja: アオイ

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distribution_en:

description_en: Genus of about 30 species of evergreen or deciduous trees, some with bottle-shaped trunks, from seasonally dry to moist tropical forest in Australia and Papua New Guinea. The leaves are alternate and entire to shallowly or palmately lobed. Unisexual, petalless flowers have 5 or 6 sometimes colourful tepals and are profusely borne in axillary or terminal, panicle-like cymes. In frost-prone areas, grow in a temperate or warm greenhouse. Elsewhere, grow as flowering specimen or shade trees.

hardiness_en: Frost tender.

cultivation_en:

propagation_en: Sow seed at 16-18°C (61-64°F) as soon as ripe. Root semi-ripe cuttings in summer or hardwood cuttings in early autumn, both in a propagating case with bottom heat.

pests_en: Red spider mites may be a problem under glass.

description_ja:

comment: Australia

comment_ja: ブラキチトン

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Update Information: Created: 2007-12-06 12:51; Updated: 2020-09-04 03:56

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