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Botanical details
- Family
- Schisandraceae
- Native to GB / Ireland
- No
- Genus
Schisandra
- Genus description
Schisandra are deciduous or evergreen, monoecious or dioecious, twining shrubs. Leaves are alternate on slender stalks. Flowers are solitary or in small clusters, borne in the leaf axils, and sepals and petals are indistinguishable. In female flowers the carpels are densely packed into a head, but as they ripen they elongate, eventually forming a spike several inches long
- Name status
Correct
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