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here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861.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.
Cupressus uhdeana Gord. ex Carri?re
For a description of the type see Cupressus lusitanica Mill. Cupressus uhdeana is probably synonymous with Cupressus lusitanica Mill. var. benthamii (Endl.) Carrière, which see. I have found no specific description of uhdeana. Johnson’s Dictionary describes it as a greenhouse plant.
Cussonia thyrsiflora Thunb.
Frost tender shrub or small tree with entire or toothed, segmented leaves, to 15cm, and panicles of white flowers. [RHSD].
Cyanella hyacinthoides L.
Cormous perennial with up to 8 basal leaves, to 30cm long, with wavy margins, and branched flower stems each with up to 10, lightly fragrant, pale lilac or blue-lilac flowers, rarely white, often with a carmine blotch at the base. To 40cm. [RHSD, CECB].
Cyathea australis (R.Br.) Domin
Tall tree fern, the trunk mostly covered by the persisten bases of the stipes, the fronds, to 3m long, with conical spines on the base of the stipes. To 20m. [FNSW, Beadle].
Cyathea cooperi (Hook. ex F.Muell.) Domin
Medium to tall treefern with narrow trunk patterned with ovate scars and fronds to 5m long. To 12m. [FNSW, Beadle].
Cyathea leichhardtiana (F.Muell.) Copel.
Medium tree fern with narrow trunk covered with prickly, persisten stipe bases, and fronds to 3m. To 7m. [FNSW, Beadle].
Cybistetes longifolia (L.) Milne-Redh. & Schweik.
Frost-tender perennial, the rootstock a bulb, the strap-shaped leaves, radiating from the base to form a flattened fan shape, to 35cm long, sometimes present at flowering, sometimes appearing afterwards, the fragrant, widely funnel-shaped flowers opening white and maturing to deep pink outside. [CECB, Baker Am.].
Cyclamen coum Mill.
Fully-hardy tuberous perennial with rounded leaves, sometimes with silver patterns, and white, pink or carmine-red flowers, with dark carmine-red stains above white-rimmed mouths, produced with the leaves in winter and spring. To 8cm. [RHSE].
Cyclamen hederifolium Ait.
Fully hardy tuberous perennial with heart-shaped leaves, very variably patterned, usually paler beneath, to 15cm long, and pink flowers with deep maroon markings, to 2.5cm long. To 15cm. Many garden forms and hybrids exist. [RHSE, Hortus].
Cyclamen persicum Mill.
Frost-tender tuberous perennial with heart-shaped leaves, often silver-marbled above and sweet-scented pink, red or white flowers on slender stems in winter and spring. To 20cm. The variety giganteum has larger flowers and includes the numerous varieties of florist’s cinerareas available today. [RHSE, Hortus].
Cyclamen repandum Auct. ex Knuth
Cormous perennial with soft, caudate and wavy-edged leaves, flowers bright carmine with a deeper throat. [RHSD, Hortus].
Cyclopia genistoides Vent.
Frost-tender, evergreen, broom-like shrub with trifoliate leaves and axillary yellow flowers. To 2.5m. [RHSD].
Cydonia oblonga Mill.
Small deciduous tree with broadly ovate leaves, often turning yellow before falling, and solitary white or pink flowers followed by large, edible, down-covered, pear-shaped yellow fruit, to 15cm or more long. To 6m or more. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Cymbidium canaliculatum R.Br.
Frost-tender, very variable epiphytic orchid with pseudobulbous stems, rigid leaves, to 50cm long, and racemes, to 40cm long, with numerous, variable flowers, usually greenish-yellow with dark red spots, to solid maroon, in spring and summer. [RHSD, Jones, FNSW, Pridgeon, Beadle].
Cymbidium simulans Rolfe
Cymbidium orchid with pendulous, many flowered racemes of yellowish flowers with a central purplish stripe. Often confused with Cymbidium aloifolium (L.) Sw. [RHSD].
