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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Pinus strobus L.
Tree with round or pyramidal crown, thin bark, except for the lower part of old trees, clusters of long, soft, bluish-green leaves and cones to 10cm long. To 40m. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Pinus sylvestris L.
Large pine with peeling bark, leaves in pairs and solitary, and variable cones, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3, to 8cm long. To 40m. There are many varieties. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Pinus taeda L.
Fully-hardy evergreen tree with bluish young shoots, long, slender, flexible and slightly twisted leaves, to 25cm long, and oblong cones, to 10cm long. To about 20m. Cultivated for timber and occasionally naturalised around plantations. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’, FNSW].
Pinus teocote Schied. ex Schldl. & Cham.
Frost-hardy tree with thick, furrowed bark towards the base of the trunk, orange-red to brown and thinner above, needles usually 3 per fascicle, and solitary or paired, ovoid cones, to 9cm. To 30m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Piper nigrum L.
Trailing or climbing shrub with ovate, pointed leaves, to 15cm long and spikes of minute flowers followed by green fruit, ripening through red to black. [RHSD, Hortus].
Pistacia lentiscus L.
Half hardy, evergreen, resinous, aromatic shrub or small tree, with pinnate leaves, to 10cm long, composed of up to 7 pairs of leaflets, and dense panicles, to 3cm long, of male flowers, and looser panicles, to 6cm long, of brownish green female flowers, to 6cm long, in spring and summer, followed by blackish fruits. To 3m by 3m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Pistacia terebinthus L.
Small tree or large shrub with dark, glossy, aromatic, pinnate leaves and green unisexual flowers followed by small reddish-purple fruits. To 9m or more. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Pitcairnia altensteinii (Link, Klotzsch & Otto) Lem.
Frost tender herbaceous perennial with unarmed, lance-shaped leaves, to 60cm long and 2cm wide, and racemes of white flowers surrounded by bright red bracts on stems to 45cm long, in spring. [RHSD].
Pittosporum eugenoides A.Cunn.
Large shrub or small tree with narrowly oval, undulate leaves, to 10cm long and 3cm wide, paler beneath, and terminal clusters of honey-scented yellowish flowers. Also occurs in a variegated form. To 13m. [RHSD, Hilliers’, Annals of the Missouri Botanic Garden v.43, p.179/1956].
Pittosporum revolutum Ait.
Half hardy, bushy shrub with alternate, lance-shaped leaves, to 11cm long, woolly beneath, and few-flowered terminal umbels of bell-shaped yellow flowers in spring and summer, followed by spherical orange capsules. To 4m. [RHSE, FNSW, Beadle].
Pittosporum tenuifolium Banks & Sol. ex Gaertn. var. nigricans
Frost hardy, bushy shrub to small tree with elliptic, wavy-margined leaves, to 6cm long, and small axillary clusters of honey-scented, bell-shaped, black-red flowers in spring and summer, followed by grey-black capsules. ‘Nigricans’ has black twigs. To 10m. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Pittosporum tobira Dryand.
Half hardy, dense, rounded shrub or small tree with alternate, obovate leaves, to 10cm long, and large, terminal, umbel-like clusters of very scented, creamy white flowers, to 2.5cm across, in spring and summer, followed by yellow-brown capsules. To 10m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Pittosporum undulatum Vent.
Half hardy, dense, rounded tree with lance-shaped, wavy-margined leaves and terminal umbel-like clusters of fragrant, creamy white flowers in spring and summer, followed by orange-brown capsules. To 24m. [RHSE, Hilliers’].
Platanus occidentalis L.
Large tree with shallowly five-lobed leaves, mottled bark, the fruit balls usually single or in pairs and smoother than most other species. To 50m. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
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