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.
Carmichaelia teres unidentified
An unidentified species but probably a form of Carmichaelia australis R.Br. with rounded stems of circular section rather than flattened.
Carmichaelia tereta unidentified
An unidentified species but probably a form of Carmichaelia australis R.Br. with rounded stems of circular section rather than flattened.
Carpinus betulus L.
Medium sized to large deciduous tree with a grey, fluted trunk and ovate, serrate, ribbed leaves and fruiting catkins to 12cm long. Usually keeps its dead leaves through winter. To 20m but often grown as a hedge in a similar way to Beech. An excellent hedging species. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Carya tomentosa Nutt.
Fully hardy tree with pinnate leaves with up to 9 oblong leaflets, nearly round, edible nuts. To 28m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Castanea sativa Mill.
Fully hardy, vigorous, broadly columnar tree with oblong, toothed, glossy, dark green leaves. It has edible fruit in autumn, with a number of cultivars grown particularly for their fruit. To 30m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Castanospermum australe Cunn. & Fraser
Frost-tender, open, spreading tree with lustrous dark green leaves, to 45cm long, composed of up to 17 elliptic leaflets, and racemes of yellow, orange or red flowers in spring and summer, followed by large pods containing chestnut-like black seeds. To 30m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Catalpa bignonioides Walt.
Fully hardy, spreading tree with ovate, heart-shaped leaves and white flowers, to 5cm across, marked with yellow and brown, in upright panicles in summer, followed by slender pods. To 15m. [RHSE, Hilliers’].
Ceanothus divaricatus Nutt.
Frost hardy, evergreen shrub with smooth, pale bark, wide spreading, rigid branches, and clusters of pale blue or white flowers in spring or early summer. To 4m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Celtis australis L.
Fully hardy, spreading, deciduous tree with broad, lance-shaped, rough, coarsely-toothed leaves, turning yellow in autumn, and edible, red fruit, to 1cm across, ripening to blackish-brown. To 20m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Celtis occidentalis L.
Fully hardy, spreading, deciduous tree with lance-shaped, sharply-toothed leaves, rounded or heart-shaped at the base, and sweet, edible, yellow or red fruit, to 1cm across, ripening to purple. To 20m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Centradenia inaequilateralis G.Don
Tender evergreen sub-shrub with ovate lance-shaped leaves and terminal racemes of rosy-pink flowers. [RHSD].
Ceratonia siliqua L.
Frost-tender, evergreen tree or small shrub with a rounded head, dark green, leathery, pinnate leaves, with up to 10 leaflets, and cylindrical racemes of red and yellow flowers in late summer and autumn. To 15m. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Ceratopetalum species unidentified
Genus of 5 species of evergreen shrubs and trees from open woodland and rainforest in Australia and New Guinea, valued for their panicles of flowers which give an even showier display of enlarged, brightly coloured calyces after the flowers have finished. The genus includes Ceratopetalum gummiferum Sm., the Australian Christmas tree, much used in floristry in Australia, and C. apetalum D.Don, the Coachwood, both of which are native to the Sydney and Illawarra regions of New South Wales. [FNSW, Beadle]. It could also be a species belonging to another genus in the family Cunoniaceae or the related Baueraceae.
Cercis siliquastrum L.
Fully-hardy, spreading, sometimes multi-stemmed, deciduous tree with inversely heart-shaped leaves, bronze when young, changing to blue-green, then turning yellow in autumn. The clusters of magenta, pink or white flowers are borne before and with the leaves. To 10m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Cestrum aurantiacum Lindl.
Frost tender evergreen shrub with arching branches, ovate to lance-shaped leaves and axillary and terminal panicle-like cymes of tubular bright orange flowers in spring and summer. To 3m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
