Climbers

Mimosa sensitiva L.

A frost-tender, prickly, semi-climbing, evergreen shrub with sensitive stems and leaves composed of 2 unequal pinnae, and purple flowers in summer.  Sensitive to touch.  To 2m.  [RHSD].

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].

Nematanthus longipes DC.

Frost-tender, evergreen, low-climbing shrub, with fleshy, ovate leaves, to 15cm long, and 1-3 deep scarlet flowers, spotted inside with dark red, produced in the leaf axils in almost continuous succession.  To 60cm.  [RHSD, Hortus].

Pandorea jasminoides (Lindl.) K. Schum.

Frost tender, vigorous twining climber with wiry, branching stems, pinnate leaves, composed of 5-9 leaflets, to 5cm long, and freely-produced cyme-like panicles of tubular white flowers, flushed crimson in the throat, from spring to summer.  To 5m or more.  [RHSE, Hilliers’, Hortus].

Pandorea jasminoides (Lindl.) K. Schum. var. alba

See Pandorea jasminoides (Lindl.) K. Schum. for discussion of the species.  The variety alba has pure white, somewhat larger flowers.  [RHSE].  There are a number of named cultivars.

Pandorea pandorana (Andr.) Steenis

The designation ‘sp. nova’ suggests an Australian plant and was often used in this sense by Macarthur.  The only other Australian bignonia known at the time is Pandorea pandorana (Andr.) Steenis, although it seems unlikely that William Macarthur would have been unaware of this plant as it first botanically described in 1800 and introduced to Europe even earlier.  It is a climber with creamish-white flowers with a purplish throat, native to the Sydney area.  [FNSW, Beadle].

Parthenocissus quinquefolia (L.) Planch.

Fully hardy, vigorous, woody climber with palmate leaves composed of usually, 5 sharply-toothed leaflets, turning brilliant red in autumn.  To 15m or more.  [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].

Passiflora ‘Alato-kermesina’

Presumably a Passiflora alata C.Curtis x Passiflora raddiana DC. hybrid.  I have found no description of this plant.

Passiflora ‘Blakii’

No description of this cross has been found.

Camden-bred hybrid named for Edmund Blake, convict gardener at Camden Park at this time, possibly hybridised by John Bidwill.  ‘We have raised a considerable batch of seedlings from the crossed Passiflora seed, some of which are now 8 or 10 feet high and beginning to show flower buds.  The most promising looking are Kermesina x caerulea [see Passiflora x floribunda [Macarthur]] and caerulea-racemosa by Kermesina.  There are two other crosses supplied by you from Sydney but we do not know what they are.’  Macarthur to Bidwill, 25th November 1845 [MP A2933-2, p.98]. 

Passiflora ‘Camdeni’

Camden-bred hybrid.  No description is extant.  It may be one of the hybrids originally numbered 1 to 10 in Macarthur’s notebook and described under these numbers.

Passiflora ‘Delicata’

Camden-bred hybrid.  No description is extant.  It may be one of the hybrids originally numbered 1 to 10 in Macarthur’s notebook and described under these numbers.

Passiflora ‘Elegans’

Probably a Camden-bred hybrid, parentage unknown.  No description is extant.  It may be one of the hybrids originally numbered 1 to 10 in Macarthur’s notebook and described under these numbers.

Passiflora ‘Floribunda Minor’

Camden Park hybrid, Passiflora kermisina x Passiflora caerulea.  I have found no specific description but it was probably very similar to Passiflora ‘Floribunda' which see.

Passiflora ‘Floribunda’

A Camden Park hybrid, Passiflora kermisina x Passiflora caerulea, described by William Macarthur in a gardening notebook, c.1845.  ‘Corolla 4-5 inches in diameter, sepals greenish brown without, bright red lilac, approaching to crimson, within in two distinct shades of colour.  Petals red lilac, filamentous appendages round throat of tube in several distinct rows, the two lower about 2 inches in diameter, coloured dark chocolate purple and bright blue separated by a band of white.  [Indecipherable word] ?ths light [unclear] purple mottled with green, stigmas brownish green, pollen yellow, foot stalks 3-5 inches, flowers fragrant and of great perfection.  A very distinctive plant of superior growth, flowers early.’  [MP vol. 52].

Passiflora ‘Kingiana’

I have found no description of this plant, although it is probably a hybrid, one of the hybrids originally numbered 1 to 10 in Macarthur’s notebook and described under these numbers.