Houttuynia definitions

Houttuynia

1) Dicot genus 2) Genus houttuynia 3) Magnoliopsid genus
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Houttuynia is a genus of two species in the Saururaceae native to Southeast Asia. One species, H. cordata, is widely cultivated as a culinary herb. The genus was originally described in 1783 by Carl Peter Thunberg when he formally described H. cordata as the only species. It remained a monotypic genus until 2001 when Zheng Yin Zhu and Shi Liang Zh...
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Houttuynia

These hardy perennials are originally from Japan and are great ground covers for the margins of your water garden. H. cordata has bluish-green, heart-shaped leaves edged with red on red stems. Small flowers, consisting of cone-shaped inflorescences surrounded by white, petal-like bracts, are produced from the tips of the stems, in early summer. Thi...
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