Plants in the Hortus
Many of the plants described here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861. A large number of additional plants were identified from correspondence, gardening notebooks and other documents surviving in the archives. The Hortus attempts to describe all the plants grown in the gardens at Camden Park and those grown in horticultural enterprises such as orchards and vineyards and includes plants grown outside the gardens in the park-like environs of the Camden Park estate. The Hortus plants served a wide range of purposes in the 19th century household; as ornament, living fences, fibre, dyestuffs, medicines, food and drink from the garden, orchard and vineyard and many others.
Ixora chinensis Lam. var. rosea
See Ixora chinensis Lam. for a basic description. Rosea has rose-coloured flowers.
Ixora coccinea L.
Frost-tender, bushy, gently rounded shrub with oblong, glossy, pointed leaves, to 10cm long, and corymb-like cymes, to 12cm across, of red, orange, pink or yellow flowers in summer and autumn. To 2.5m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Ixora coccinea L. var. bandhuca (Roxb.) Corner
See Ixora coccinea L. for a basic description. There are many garden cultivars of Ixora coccinea in a wide range of growth forms and flower colour, reflected in its common name of ‘Jungle geranium’. ‘Bandhuca’ has compressed corymbs of scarlet flowers. [RHSD].
Ixora coccinea L. var. grandiflora
See Ixora coccinea L. for a basic description. There are many garden cultivars of Ixora coccinea in a wide range of growth forms and flower colour, reflected in its common name of ‘Jungle geranium’. Grandiflora is described as having large red flowers. [JD].
Ixora odorata Hook.
Tender evergreen shrub with broadly lance-shaped leaves and large panicles of very fragrant white flowers, ageing to yellow-brown, in spring. To 90cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Jacquinia aurantiaca Ait.
Frost tender, evergreen shrub with lance-shaped leaves and racemes of orange flowers. To 1.2m. [RHSD].
Jasminum bidwillii Vis.
Jasminum bidwilli is correctly named Jasminum didymum G.Forst. subsp. lineare (R.Br.) P.Green, which see for further information. It is recorded separately here to assist identification.
Jasminum didymum G.Forst. G.Forst. subsp. didymum
Frost tender, tall woody climber with very variable three-foliate leaves, the leaflets somewhat ovate to lance-shaped, to 8cm long, and axillary or terminal racemes of pure white flowers, each to 2cm long. [Don].
Jasminum didymum G.Forst. subsp. lineare (R.Br.) P.Green
Fully-hardy semi-shrub with some twining branches with tri-foliate leaves and small, fragrant cream flowers, to 1cm, usually in autumn. [FNSW, Wrigley, Don]. See also Jasminum didymum G.Forst. subsp. didymum.
Jasminum fruticans L.
Frost hardy, dense, upright, evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub with alternate, pinnate leaves composed of 3 leaflets, and terminal cymes of up to 5 salverform, slightly fragrant yellow flowers, to 1.5cm across, in summer. To 1.5m by 1.5m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Jasminum glaucum Vahl.
Don relates Jasminum ligustrifolium Lam. to Jasminum glaucum Vahl., a climbing shrub from South Africa with lance-shaped leaves and a three-flowered inflorescence. This plant may be the Jasminum glaucum of Solander and Aiton described in the Hortus Kewensis of 1789.
Jasminum humile L.
Frost-hardy semi-evergreen or evergreen, erect or arching, bushy shrub with alternate, pinnate leaves, with up to 13 leaflets, and cymes of usually 6, salverform, sometimes fragrant, bright yellow flowers, to 1cm across, from spring to autumn. To 2.5m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Jasminum nudiflorum Lindl.
Half-hardy, slender deciduous shrub with arching shoots bearing solitary, salverform, bright yellow flowers in winter/spring, before the leaves. To 3m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Jasminum odoratissimum L.
Half-hardy evergreen climber with alternate, bluntish, pinnate leaves, with 3 leaflets, and fragrant whitish-yellow flowers. [Don].
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