Gordonia

Information about Gordonia

This article is about the plant genus Gordonia. For the youth movement of the same name, see Gordonia youth movement.

Gordonia

Gordonia lasianthus flower

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Theaceae
Genus:	Gordonia

Species

About 40 species, including:
Gordonia anomala
Gordonia axillaris
Gordonia balansae
Gordonia chrysandra
Gordonia fruticosa
Gordonia hainanensis
Gordonia hirta
Gordonia javanica
Gordonia lasianthus
Gordonia longicarpa
Gordonia shimidae
Gordonia sinensis
Gordonia tagawae
Gordonia tonkinensis
Gordonia wallichii
Gordonia yunnanensis

Gordonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, related to Franklinia, Camellia and Stewartia. Of the roughly 40 species, all but two are native to southeast Asia in southern China, Taiwan and Indochina. The remaining species, G. lasianthus (Loblolly-bay), is native to southeast North America, from Virginia south to Florida and west to Louisiana; G. fruticosa is native to the tropical rainforests of Central and South America, from Costa Rica to Brazil.

Gordonia lasianthus leaf and branch

They are evergreen trees, growing to 10-20 m tall. The bark is thick and deeply fissured. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, serrated, thick, leathery, glossy, and 6-18 cm long. The flowers are large and conspicuous, 4-15 cm diameter, with 5 (occasionally 6-8) white petals; flowering is in late winter or early spring. The fruit is a dry five-valved capsule, with 1-4 seeds in each section.

The species are adapted to acidic soils, and do not grow well on chalk or other calcium-rich soils. They also have a high rainfall requirement and will not tolerate drought.

Some botanists include Franklinia within Gordonia; it differs in being deciduous and flowering in late summer, not late winter. The draft Flora of China account of Theaceae in China splits Gordonia into two genera, with G. lasianthus retained in Gordonia, and the Asian species transferred to Polyspora; this treatment is not yet widely accepted.

Cultivation and uses

Several species of Gordonia are grown as ornamental plants for their flowers produced in winter when few other trees are in flower. They are however difficult to grow compared to the similar but generally smaller-growing camellias.

External links

Flora of China: draft text of Theaceae

The Gordonia Youth Movement, based on the personal example of Aaron David Gordon, was established in 1925. The movement’s doctrines were based on his interpretations – i.e.
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Plantae
Haeckel, 1866^[1]

Divisions

Green algae

Chlorophyta
Charophyta

Land plants (embryophytes)

Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)

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Magnoliophyta

Classes

Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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Magnoliopsida

Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class of flowering plants. By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its can otherwise vary, being more inclusive or less inclusive depending upon the classification system being
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Ericales
Dumort., 1829

Families

See text.

The Ericales (azalea) are a large and diverse order of dicotyledons. The order is represented with many various life forms, starting from trees and bushes, to lianas and herbaceous plants.
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Theaceae
D.Don

Genera

Apterosperma
Camellia
Dankia
Franklinia
Gordonia
Laplacea
Polyspora
Pyrenaria
Schima
Stewartia
Tutcheria
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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F. alatamaha

Binomial name
Franklinia alatamaha
Bartram ex Marshall, 1785

Franklinia is a monotypic genus in the family Theaceae.
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Camellia
L.

Species

About 100–250 species, including:
Camellia assimilis
Camellia azalea
Camellia brevistyla
Camellia caudata
Camellia chekiangoleosa
Camellia chrysantha
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Stewartia (sometimes spelled Stuartia^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]) is a genus of 8-20 species of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, related to Camellia.
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Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area (or 29.4% of its land area) and, with almost 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population.
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Republic of China. For other uses, see Taiwan (disambiguation).

Taiwan (Traditional Chinese: or ; Simplified Chinese:
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Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a region in Southeast Asia. It lies roughly east of India, south of China.

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Loblolly-bay or Gordonia lasianthus is a member of the Tea or Theaceae family.

Gordonia lasianthus

Gordonia lasianthus flower

Scientific classification

Kingdom:
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Commonwealth of Virginia

Flag of Virginia Seal
Nickname(s): Old Dominion, Mother of Presidents
Motto(s): Sic semper tyrannis

Official language(s) English

Capital Richmond
Largest city
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evergreen plant is a plant that has leaves all year round. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose all their foliage for part of the year.

Leaf persistence in evergreen plants may vary from only a few months (with new leaves constantly being grown and old
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tree is a perennial woody plant. It is sometimes defined as a woody plant that attains diameter of 10 cm (30 cm girth) or more at breast height (130 cm above ground).
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leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat (laminar) and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast (chlorenchyma tissue, a type of parenchyma) to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate
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fruit has different meanings depending on context. In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues.
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