Leucothoe (plant)
Achselblütige grapes Heide ( Leucothoe axillaris )
The grapes Gentiles ( Leucothoe ) are a genus of the family Ericaceae. Their natural habitat is in North America and East Asia.
Description
Representatives of the grapes pagans are always or deciduous shrubs with erect or spreading bald or verkahlenden drives. The leaves are alternate. They are simple and stalked, the leaf blade is leathery, oblong- lanceolate and usually perforated. The flowers are arranged to eight to 60 in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles. The individual flowers are white, the five sepals overlap like roof tiles, the corolla tube is ovoid to cylindrical and ends in five small lobes. The flower are formed eight to ten stamens, the ovary is fünffächrig. The fruits are fünffächrige, 1.5 to 3.5 mm long, flattened spherical capsules. The pericarp splits not occur in the fruit opening. The 60 to 120 seeds are 0.7 to 1.4 millimeters long.
The basic chromosome number is.
Systematics and distribution
The grapes Gentiles ( Leucothoe ) are a genus of the family Ericaceae. There it is the tribe Gaultherieae assigned in the subfamily Vaccinioideae. The genus was first described by David Don in 1834.
The distribution area is located in the United States and East Asia. We distinguish between the following types:
- Leucothoe acuminata ( Aiton ) G. Don
- Achselblütige grapes Heide ( Leucothoe axillaris ( Lam.) D. Don ), area of distribution in the U.S.
- Leucothoe catesbaei (Walter ) A. Gray
- Curved grapes Heide ( Leucothoe fontanesiana ( Steud. ) Sleumer ), area of distribution in the U.S.
- Leucothoe griffithiana C.B. Clarke, distribution area in Bhutan, Myanmar and the Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Yunnan and Xizang
- Summer Green grapes Heide ( Leucothoe racemosa (L.) A. Gray )
- Leucothoe tonkinensis Dop distribution area in Vietnam and the Chinese provinces of Guizhou and Yunnan
Use
Representatives of the genus are used as ornamentals, particularly for individual or group plantings, often together with rhododendrons (Rhododendron ).