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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Lycaste cruenta Lind.
Frost-tender epiphytic orchid with lance-shaped leaves, to 35cm long, heavily spined pseudobulbs, from which appear many faintly cinnamon-scented, greenish yellow flowers, to 7cm across, before new growth commences in spring and summer. To 45cm. [RHSE, Pridgeon, Hortus].
Lycaste skinneri Lind.
Frost tender epiphytic orchid with short pseudobulbs bearing usually 2 – 3 lance-shaped leaves to 60cm long, and pink flowers to 15cm across with cream sepals, shaded pink and reddish purple petals, the lips sometimes mottled purple, from winter to spring. To 30cm. [RHSE, Hortus, Pridgeon].
Lychnis chalcedonica L.
Fully hardy, erect, stiff perennial with umbel-like cymes of star-shaped scarlet flowers in summer. White and double garden cultivars are available. To 1.2m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Lychnis coronaria (L.) Desr
Fully hardy, erect biennial or short-lived perennial with woolly, silver-grey foliage and usually single, purple-red or pale purple flowers in summer. To 80cm. An excellent and striking herbaceous plant. [RHSE, Hortus].
Lychnis coronata Thunb.
An erect biennial or perennial with ovate leaves and brick-red or salmon, sometimes white flowers. To 45cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Lychnis fulgens Fisch.
Hardy perennial with ovate-oblong leaves and bright scarlet flowers in loose, few-flowered umbels. To 60cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Lycium ferocissimum Miers
Tall shrub with rigid, spiny branches, obovate leaves, whitish flowers and orange-red berries. To 4m. [FNSW, Beadle].
Lycopodium caesium Hort.
A creeping perennial fern ally, with bluish foliage turning brown if exposed to too much light. To 15cm. A more upright variety, arboreum, is also recorded, which see. [JD].
Lycopodium caesium Hort. var. arborescens
See Lycopodium caesium Hort. for a description. The form arborescens has a more upright habit.
Lycopodium cernuum L.
Very variable tender, creeping fern with forked branches and bright, light green leaves. [RHSD, FNSW]. Figured in Flora Fluminensis [t.112/1790].
Lycopodium myrtifolium G.Forst.
Clubmoss with erect stems, to 20cm, and crowded, lance-shaped, dark green leaves, leaves. Usually founding crevices or rock ledges, or as an epiphyte on tree ferns. [Jones & Clemesha, FNSW].
Lycoris aurea (L’Hér.) Herb.
Bulbous perennial, stout stems bear umbels of several tubular-funnel-shaped, wavy-margined, yellow flowers in spring and summer, followed by the strap-shaped leaves. To 60cm. [RHSE, Hortus, Baker Am.].
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