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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Strelitzia alba (L.f.) Skeels.
Frost-tender, clump-forming perennial with lance-shaped leaf blades on long leaf stalks and purple-glaucous spathes with white flowers in spring. To 10m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Strelitzia reginae Banks ex Dryand.
Frost-tender, clump-forming perennial with lance-shaped leaf blades on long stalks and purple- and orange-flushed green spathes with flowers with orange or yellow calyces and blue corollas in winter and spring. To 2m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Strelitzia reginae Banks ex Dryand. var. juncea (Ker-Gawl.) H.E.Moore
See Strelitzia reginae Banks ex Dryand. for a description of the species. Juncea is a form with rush-like leaves without leaf-blades, green spathes and flowers with orange calyces and blue corollas from winter to spring. To 1.5m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Streptocarpus rexii Lindl.
Frost-tender rhizomatous perennial with rosettes of strap-shaped leaves, to 30cm long, and cymes of up to 6 violet-tinged white, or violet flowers, to 4.5cm across, with violet lines on the lower lobes, from spring to autumn. To 25cm. [RHSE, Hortus, Don].
Strobilanthes anisophylla T.Anders.
Frost tender, evergreen sub-shrub with unequal pairs of lance-shaped, toothed leaves, the longer to 9cm long, and tubular blue flowers, borne in cone-shaped inflorescences in spring and winter. To 2m. [RHSD].
Strobilanthes glomeratus T.Anders.
Frost tender, evergreen shrub with much branched stems, crenate, ovate leaves, hairy on the upper side, and scattered heads of very large deep blue-purple flowers in autumn. To 1.2m. [RHSD].
Sutherlandia frutescens R.Br.
Frost-tender evergreen shrub with slender, erect, twiggy, white-downy stems, pinnate leaves and axillary racemes of bright red, pea-like flowers in spring and summer, followed by greenish-yellow or red-flushed seed pods. To 2m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Syncarpha vestita (L.) B.Nord.
Erect soft-wooded shrub with white everlasting flowers with papery bracts. Found mountain tops in sandy soils. Spring to summer flowering. To 60cm. [Rice pl.LXXXIV].
Synoum glandulosum (Sm.) Juss.
Frost tender evergreen shrub or small tree with pinnate leaves composed of up to 7 elliptical-lance-shaped leaflets, and reddish-white flowers most of the year. To 7m. [FNSW, Beadle].
Syringa vulgaris L.
Fully-hardy, spreading shrub or small tree, with heart-shaped leaves, to 10cm long, and dense, conical panicles, to 20cm long, of small, single or double, fragrant lilac flowers in spring. To 7m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Syringa x persica L. var. alba
Fully-hardy, compact bushy shrub with lance-shaped leaves, to 6cm long, and small, dense panicles of fragrant white to rose pink flowers in spring. To 2m. It is often regarded as a stable juvenile form of S. laciniata or S. afghanica x S. laciniata. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Syzygium malaccense (L.) Merrill & Perry
Tree with buttressed stem, flaky, pink-red bark, elliptic leaves to 15cm long, and groups of 4 cream to red-purple flowers held under the leaves, followed by edible, vitamin-rich pink fruits ripening to black, to 2cm across. To 25m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Tabernaemontana dichotoma Roxb.
Frost tender shrub with oblong leaves, to 12cm long, and many-flowered terminal cymes of slightly scented white flowers in autumn, followed by pendulous, orange-yellow fruit, with a depression on one side. To 2m. [RHSD].
Tabernaemontana laurifolia L.
Shrub with oval leaves and creamy yellow flowers. To 3m. [RHSD].
Tabernaemontana longiflora Benth.
Frost tender tree with oblong-eliptic leaves and cymes of usually 3 large, long-tubed, clover-scented white flowers in summer. [RHSD].
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