The Botanical Pages


  • Watsonia in Australian gardens  These gladiolus-like flowers were characteristic of Australian gardens in the art deco era; could they come back into fashion?

  • Lycoris  The species in this ornamental genus of Amaryllidaceae.

  • Flower colour in Chasmanthe  The red and yellow variants may differ by a single gene.

  • The history of Reseda odorata  The relation of sweet mignonette to the wild Reseda phyteuma.

  • Essays of the phenomena of heterosis, the "hybrid vigour" often seen in the first generation of hybrids, and the hybrid breakdown that may occur in later generations.

  • Centrolepidaceae  A Flora treatment of a group of reduced grass-like plants that are adapted to live in impoverished habitats.


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