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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Platanus orientalis L.
Fully hardy, vigorous, spreading, deciduous tree with flaking grey, brown and cream bark, deeply 5-lobed leaves, to 25cm long, and green, turning brown, fruit clusters persisting into winter. To 30m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Platycerium bifurcatum (Cav.) C.Chr.
Large epiphytic fern with sterile ‘nest leaves’ forming a large mass at the top of the plant, the branched fertile fronds either erect or pendant. Plantlets grown from buds and enable the clump to encircle the tree trunk. [RHSD, Hortus, FNSW].
Platycerium superbum de Jonch. & Hennipman
Large epiphytic fern with sterile ‘nest leaves’ forming a large mass at the top of the plant, the branched fertile fronds pendant and often very long. Plantlets are not formed as in Platycerium bifurcatum. [RHSD, Hortus, FNSW].
Platycladus orientalis (L.f.) Franco
Fully-hardy, irregular or conical evergreen tree with erect branches and branchlets, very small, scale-like leaves, which often turn bronze in winter, and upright, flask-shaped, greyish female cones, to 2cm long. To 15m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Platycladus orientalis (L.f.) Franco var. aureo nana
See Platycladus orientalis (L.f.) Franco for a description of the species. Aurea nana is a globular bush of dense habit, with crowded, vertically arranged sprays of yellow-green foliage, fading to bronze in winter. Aurea nana only grows to 60cm. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’]. Thuja aurea Hort. ex Carrière was published in 1855.
Platycladus orientalis (L.f.) Franco var. filiformis pendula
See Platycladus orientalis (L.f.) Franco for a description of the species. In pendula the main branches are long and whip-like, with long slender branchlets in small dense clusters. [RHSD].
Platycladus orientalis (L.f.) Franco var. intermedia
See Platycladus orientalis (L.f.) Franco for a description of the species. Intermedia has loosely arranged, pendant branches and retains both adult and juvenile leaves. [RHSD, Hortus].
Plowmania nyctaginoides (Standl.) Hunz. & Subsils
Fully hardy, fast-growing evergreen climber with 4-angled stems, pinnate leaves, to 7cm long, and racemes of tubular orange flowers, to 2.5cm long, from spring to autumn. To 5m or more. [RHSE].
Plumbago capensis Thunb.
Half hardy, scandent evergreen shrub, sometimes grown as a climber, with slender branching stems, oblong leaves, to 7cm long, and dense, terminal, corymb-like racemes of long-tubed, sky-blue flowers, to 4cm long, in summer and autumn. To 6m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Plumbago capensis Thunb. var. alba
For a description of the species see Plumbago capensis Thunb. Alba is a form with white flowers.
Plumbago indica L.
Frost tender evergreen shrub, becoming spreading or semi-scandent, with elliptic leaves, to 11cm long, and terminal racemes of long-tubed, deep pink or red flowers, to 2.5cm long, in autumn or winter. To 2m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Podalyria calyptrata Willd.
Half-hardy shrub with elliptic, grey-green leaves, to 5cm, and light pink to lavender-purple flowers with a white keel, to 4cm across, in spring and summer. To 3m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Podalyria sericea R.Br.
Frost-tender spreading shrub with obovate leaves, to 2cm long, covered with silvery hairs ageing to gold, and solitary, fragrant, pea-like lavender–blue to lavender-pink flowers, to 1cm across, from autumn to spring. To 90cm. [RHSE, Hortus].
Podocarpus australis Hort.
I have been unable to identify a plant under the name Podocarpus australis but it is probably Podocarpus totara G.Benn. ex D.Don which see.
Podocarpus dacrydioides A.Rich.
Half-hardy, vigorous, monoecious, evergreen tree with long, slender, drooping branchlets, clothed with narrow, two-ranked, bronze-green leaves, spirally arranged when mature, and small, reddish fruit. To 45m. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
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