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.
Eugenia uniflora L.
Frost-tender shrub or small tree with ovate-lance-shaped leaves, to 10cm, and solitary, fragrant white flowers, usually at the base of young shoots, followed by edible red to black fruits, 3cm across. To 7m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Euonymus europaeus L.
Fully hardy, broadly conical, deciduous shrub or small tree, with spreading, somewhat pendant shoots, scalloped dark green leaves, to 7cm long, which turn red in autumn, and 4-lobed, clustered red fruit. To 3m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Euonymus japonicus Thunb.
Frost hardy, dense, bushy, evergreen shrub or small tree with toothed, obovate leaves, to 6cm long, and small white flowers followed by spherical, pink-tinged white fruits, which are not always produced. To 4m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Euonymus japonicus Thunb. var. variegatus
For more detail see Euonymus japonicus Thunb. ‘There are two varieties, one with silver striped, the other with gold striped leaves; but the latter is very subject to run back to the green-leaved, while the silver striped hardly ever changes.’ [BR f.6/1844]. Macarthur’s plant is presumably one of these.
Eupatorium sordidum Less.
Half hardy, bushy, rounded shrub with young stems covered in red woolly hairs, opposite, ovate, toothed leaves with red hairs beneath, and terminal corymbs, to 12cm across, of fragrant, violet flowers, mainly in winter. To 3m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Euphorbia fulgens Karw. ex Klotzsch
Frost tender, erect, open, deciduous shrub with slender stems that arch at the tips, lance-shaped leaves, to 10cm long, and decorative axillary cymes of flower-like scarlet bracts and reduced floral parts in winter. To 1.2m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Euphorbia milii Des Moul cv. splendens (Bojer ex Hook.) Ursch & Leandri.
Frost tender, semi-prostrate to scrambling, slow-growing, mainly evergreen, semi-succulent shrub with slender, fleshy, thorny stems and branches and axillary cymes of intense red flower-like bracts and reduced floral parts in spring and summer. To 30cm, spreading to several metres. The type Euphorbia milii is a bushy shrub, to 1m or more. [RHSE, Hortus].
Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch
Frost tender erect to spreading, partially deciduous shrub with lance-shaped, often lobed or toothed leaves, to 15cm long, and terminal cymes, to 30cm across, of small green flowers ringed by large, very showy bright red bracts, in winter. Varieties alba, rosea and others are also commonly grown. To 2.5m. [RHSE, Hortus].
Eupomatia bennettii F.Muell.
Evergreen shrub with lance-shaped leaves to 12cm long, similar to Eupomatia laurina R.Br., which see, except that it only grows to about 1m in height. [RHSD].
Eupomatia laurina R.Br.
Frost tender, evergreen, erect shrub or small tree with alternate, glossy, elliptic leaves, to 12cm long, and solitary, axillary, greenish-yellow flowers, to 2.5cm across, followed by berry-like fruits, to 2cm across. [RHSD, Beadle].
Fagus sylvatica L.
Fully hardy spreading tree with elliptic, wavy-margined leaves, to 10cm long, pale green at first, turning dark green then yellow to orange-brown in autumn. To 25m. There are many forms with differing leaf shape, leaf colour, and tree shape. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Ficus carica ‘Black Ischia’
A cultivar of Ficus carica L. Medium sized, turbinate, flat at the top. Skin deep purple, almost black when ripe. Flesh deep red, sweet, and luscious. Tree hardy, and an excellent bearer; succeeds well in pots. August. [Hogg – Fruit Manual p.73/1860].
Ficus carica ‘Brown from Provence’
A cultivar of Ficus carica L. There are a number of figs describe as brown, usually with a specific epithet such as ‘Naples’ or ‘Malta’, but not ‘Provence’, ‘Marseille’ or similar as far as I can ascertain.
Ficus carica ‘Brunswick’
A cultivar of Ficus carica L. ‘Very large and pyriform, oblique at the apex, which is very much depressed. Skin greenish yellow in the shade; violet brown on the other side. Flesh yellow under the skin, tinged with red towards the centre. Very rich and excellent. Middle of August. The tree is very hardy and an excellent bearer, and certainly the best for out-door cultivation against walls.’ [Hogg – Fruit Manual p.74/1860].
Ficus carica ‘Figue Verte’
A cultivar of Ficus carica L. I have found no description of ‘Figue Verte’. Probably John Macarthur’s ‘green, white within’ variety.
