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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Muscari comosum (L.) Mill.
Frost-hardy bulbous perennial with spreading leaves and tassels of violet flowers in spring. To 60cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Muscari muscarimi Medik.
Half-hardy bulbous perennial with grey-green leaves to 20cm, an erect to prostrate flowering stem, to 20cm, and musk-scented, pitcher-shaped, greyish-white flowers with a bluish tinge, becoming paler or brownish with age, in spring. To 20cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Muscari muscarimi Medik. var. dark blue
See Muscari muscarimi Medik., synonym Muscari moschatum Willd., for more information on the species. The Musk hyacinth, Muscari muscarimi Medik., is a very distinctive plant, and I have found no reference to the dark blue colour form listed here, although the other colour forms are possible as the species is somewhat variable, and almost white flowers and forms with a distinct pale blue tinge to the flowers are known. The three Muscari moschatum colour forms listed in the catalogues could also be Muscari botryoides as flowers in shades of blue, pink and white have been known since at least the early 19th century and probably much longer.
Muscari muscarimi Medik. var. pale blue
See Muscari muscarimi Medik., synonym Muscari moschatum Willd., for more information on the species. The Musk hyacinth, Muscari muscarimi Medik., is a very distinctive plant, and I have found no reference to the dark blue colour form listed here, although the other colour forms are possible as the species is somewhat variable, and almost white flowers and forms with a distinct pale blue tinge to the flowers are known. The three Muscari moschatum colour forms listed in the catalogues could also be Muscari botryoides as flowers in shades of blue, pink and white have been known since at least the early 19th century and probably much longer.
Muscari muscarimi Medik. var. white
See Muscari muscarimi Medik., synonym Muscari moschatum Willd., for more information on the species. The Musk hyacinth, Muscari muscarimi Medik., is a very distinctive plant, and I have found no reference to the dark blue colour form listed here, although the other colour forms are possible as the species is somewhat variable, and almost white flowers and forms with a distinct pale blue tinge to the flowers are known. The three Muscari moschatum colour forms listed in the catalogues could also be Muscari botryoides as flowers in shades of blue, pink and white have been known since at least the early 19th century and probably much longer.
Muscari neglectum Guss. ex Ten.
Fully-hardy bulbous perennial with semi-erect, almost cylindrical leaves and dense racemes of blue-black flowers with white mouths in spring. To 20cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Mutisia grandiflora Humb. & Bonpl.
Tender evergreen shrub or scambling climber with oblong-ovate leaves and pale rose-coloured daisy-like flowers. [JD, Humboldt & Bonpland vol.1, pl.50, p.177].
Myoporum montanum R.Br.
Glabrous shrub or small tree with finely fissured bark, leaves elliptic to lance-shaped, flowers white, spotted purple in winter to summer, followed by purple fruit. To 8m. [FNSW].
Myrica cerifera L.
Hardy, glossy-leaved shrub or small tree with fragrant, narrow lance-shaped leaves, to 8cm long, the flowers catkins, followed by round fruit covered in blue-white wax. The wax has been made into fragrantly burning candles, hence the common names. To 12m. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Myrica quercifolia L.
Half hardy evergreen shrub with lobed, oak-like leaves, the axillary flowers in catkins, followed by round berries which exude a wax when ripe, this drying to a white, scaly powder. to 1m. [JD, Pappe – Silva Capensis p.45/1862].
Myrtus communis L.
Frost-hardy, upright, bushy shrub with opposite, ovate, glossy leaves, to 5cm long, and solitary, white, 5-petalled flowers, to 2cm across, with conspicuous white stamen-tufts, in summer and autumn, followed by purple-black berries. To 3m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Myrtus communis L. var. microphylla
See Myrtus communis L. for more details on the species and its varieties. Microphylla is a more compact and rounded shrub, smaller than the type in all its parts, with narrower leaves, pink-tinted cream flowers and white berries. [RHSE, Hilliers’].
Myrtus communis L. var. mucronata
See Myrtus communis L. for more details on the species and its varieties. Mucronata has pointed leaves. [JD].
Myrtus communis L. var. romana Mill.
See Myrtus communis L. for more details on the species and its varieties. Romana has broadly ovate leaves mostly borne in whorls of 3-4.
Nandina domestica Thunb.
Frost hardy evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub with upright shoots, pinnate to 3-pinnate leaves, to 90cm long, reddish when young, and conical panicles, to 40cm long, of small, star-shaped, white flowers with prominent anthers, in summer, followed by bright red berries. To 2m. [RHSE, Hilliers’, Hortus].
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