Zenobia, called honeycup, is a monotypic North American genus of shrubs in the family Ericaceae.
Description Zenobia is a hairless shrub, sometimes with a waxy coating on the foliage. The leaves are elliptical or egg-shaped. The plant has numerous white flowers in flat-topped or elongated arrays, each flower has five separate sepals and five united petals, forming a bell-shaped corolla. Each flower can produce up to 200 egg-shaped seeds in a dry capsule.Flora of North America, Zenobia D. Don, 1834.
Fossil record Ten fossil fruits of †Zenobia fasterholtensis have been described from middle Miocene strata of the Fasterholt area near Silkeborg in Central Jutland, Denmark.Angiosperm Fruits and Seeds from the Middle Miocene of Jutland (Denmark) by Else Marie Friis, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 24:3, 1985
SpeciesZenobia, Plants of the World Online Zenobia pulverulenta (W. Bartram ex Willd.) Pollard
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