Trees and Shrubs
A division of the Camden Park catalogues that is not clearly defined. In broad terms it includes all plants with woody stems except conifers and fruit trees and shrubs.
Brunfelsia hydrangeaeformis (Pohl.) Benth.
Frost tender shrub with oblong-lance-shaped leaves, to 30cm, and terminal cymes of up to 50, purple flowers, with tubes to 9cm long, in spring. To 2m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Brunfelsia latifolia Benth.
Frost tender bshy shrub with, leathery, glossy, broadly elliptic leaves and usually solitary, lavender or purple flowers, whitish at the mouth and fading to white, in winter and spring. To 3.5m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Buddleja globosa Hope
Frost hardy, rounded, stiffly-branched, deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub with lance-shaped, deeply veined leaves, and dense, rounded clusters of fragrant, orange and yellow flowers in open panicles in early summer. To 5m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Buddleja lindleyana Fort. ex Lindl.
Frost hardy, upright, somewhat arching, slender-branched, deciduous shrub with square stems, ovate leaves and nodding panicles of distinctly curved, dark violet flowers in late summer. To 2.5m. [RHSE, Hilliers’].
Buddleja madagascariensis Lam.
Frost tender, vigorous, strongly branched evergreen shrub or lax climber, the young leaves and stems downy white, with lance-shaped leaves and bright orange-yellow flowers in pendulous terminal panicles, to 25cm long, from autumn to spring. To 4m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Buddleja paniculata Wall.
Frost hardy shrub or small tree with opposite, lance-shaped leaves, to 25cm long, downy beneath, and short, terminal, dense racemes of fragrant pink, lavender or mauve flowers, white at the ends of the petals and with an orange throat, in summer. To 6m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Buddleja salvifolia Lam.
Frost hardy. arching, semi-evergreen shrub with sage-like leaves and panicles, to 15cm long, of fragrant, pale lilac-blue flowers in autumn and winter. To 3m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Burchellia bubalina (L.f.) Sims
Frost-tender, erect to spreading shrub with glossy, ovate leaves and terminal clusters of 3-12 narrowly bell-shaped or tubular orange or scarlet flowers, ageing to red, from spring to summer, followed by red to brown berries. To 5m. [RHSE, Don].
Buxus sempervirens L.
Fully hardy, bushy, rounded shrub or small tree with glossy, ovate to oblong leaves, notched at the tips. To 5m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Buxus sempervirens L. var. arborescens
See Buxus sempervirens L. for information on the species. Arborescens is a form that develops into a large shrub or small tree. [Hortus, Hilliers’].
Caesalpinia pulcherrima (L.) Sw.
Half hardy, erect, prickly shrub or small tree with 2-pinnate leaves, to 30cm long, composed of numerous elliptic leaflets, and erect racemes, to 20cm long, of up to 40 bowl-shaped orange-yellow flowers from spring to autumn. To 4m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Calamintha coccinea (Nutt. ex Hook.) Benth.
Sub-shrub with downy shoots and leaves and funnel-shaped scarlet flowers, single or 2 or 3, borne in the upper leaf axils. To 60cm. [RHSD, Hortus].
Calicotome spinosa (L.) Link.
Frost-tender, thorny, deciduous shrub with alternate, trifoliate leaves and solitary, pea-like, vivid yellow flowers on young shoots in spring and summer. To 2m. [RHSD].
Calliandra tergemina (L.) Benth.
‘Inga capensis’ is probably a miss-print or miss-named in the catalogues as Inga species come exclusively from tropical and sub-tropical America. The most likely candidate is Inga caripensis Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd., a synonym of Calliandra tergemina (L.) Benth. I have no description at present.
Callistemon salignus (Sm.) Sweet var. viridiflorus (Sims) F.Muell.
Half hardy, erect to spreading shrub or small tree with papery white bark, purplish-pink new growth, willow-like leaves, and greenish flowers in the typical bottlebrush spikes, to 5cm long, in spring and summer. To 10m. [RHSE, Hortus, FNSW, Hilliers’].
