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.
Fuchsia Turville’s ‘One in the Ring’
Thomas Turville, Florist of Chelmsford, advertised the fuchsia ‘One of the Ring’ in The Gardeners Chronicle of 1847, describing it as ‘delicate white tube with good substance, sepals slightly tinged with green, corolla vermillion, forming a contrast at once decided and beautiful, habit free and foliage fine.’
Fuchsia Veitch’s ‘Dominiana’
A Fuchsia denticulata Ruiz & Pav. x Fuchsia macrostigma Benth. hybrid. It has a long scarlet-red tube and sepals, the latter green-tipped, and an orange corolla, slightly flared when fully open. To 1.5m. [RHSD].
Furcraea foetida (L.) Haw.
Frost tender succulent with lance-shaped leaves, to 2m long and tall spires, to 12m, of strongly scented white flowers in summer. The plant dies after flowering but produces numerous seeds which often germinate and produce sizeable plantlets on the scape. These readily root when they fall. The cultivar mediopicta (variegata) has creamy-white longitudinal lines on the leaves. [RHSE, Hortus].
Gardenia augusta (L.) Merrill var. flore pleno major
See Gardenia augusta (L.) Merrill var. flore pleno for details. Gardenia augusta is a very variable species, the variety major is very free flowering but with flowers smaller than florida flore pleno. [RHSD, Hortus].
Gardenia augusta (L.) Merrill var. florepleno
The species is a medium to large bushy shrub, or sometimes small tree, with lance-shaped, glossy green leaves and salverform, strongly fragrant, white or ivory flowers, to 8cm across, either single or in few-flowered cymes, in summer and autumn. To 12m by 3m. There are a number of semi-double, or double-flowered cultivars, often much smaller bushes, and it is usually grown in a double-flowered form. [RHSE, Hortus, Don].
Gardenia augusta (L.) Merrill var. fortuniana
See Gardenia augusta (L.) Merrill var. flore pleno for details. Fortuniana has flowers larger than the type.
Gardenia augusta (L.) Merrill var. ovalifolia
See Gardenia augusta (L.) Merrill var. flore pleno for detail. Ovalifolia is a variety with more oval leaves and smaller flowers.
Gardenia beaumiana unidentified
An unidentified species. This could be a typographical error with bowieana intended. Given the confusion between species of Gardenia, Rothmannia and Randia at this time the plant intended could be Euclinia longiflora Salisb. which see. Its numerous synonyms include Rothmannia bowieana (A.Cunn. ex Hook.) Benth. and Randia bowieana A.Cunn. ex Hook.
Gardenia resinifera Roth.
Frost-tender, unarmed shrub or small tree with shiny, oblong leaves with resinous buds and solitary, almost terminal, large, pure white, fragrant flowers. [Don].
Gardenia species from China
An unidentified species. Chinese species recognised at the time of the catalogues include Gardenia amoena, a spiny shrub with solitary white flowers, purplish on the outside [BM t.1904/1817] and G. grandiflora, an unarmed tree or shrub with large solitary white flowers. [RHSD]. The latter is a form of Gardenia augusta. See Gardenia augusta (L.) Merrill var. flore pleno for more details.
Gardenia species from the Cape of Good Hope
An unidentified species. A number of species of Gardenia or related genera are recorded from South Africa.
Gardenia thunbergia L.f.
Frost-tender, open, erect unarmed shrub or small tree with rigid branches, opposite pairs of glossy, dark green leaves with wavy margins, to 6cm long, and solitary, tubular, spreading, fragrant, white or cream flowers, to 6cm across, from winter to spring, followed by persistent, large, woody, pear-shaped fruits. To 5m. [RHSE, Hortus, Don].
Garrya macrophylla Benth.
Frost hardy, robust shrub with leaves to 15cm long and catkins appearing in late spring. To 3m. [RHSD, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Gaylussacia species unidentified
Evergreen or deciduous shrubs introduced to Europe from the Americas in the 18th and 19th centuries. ‘Low, branching shrubs, mostly resinous-dotted. Leaves serrate or entire. Flowers small, white or pink, in lateral, bracted racemes, nodding; pedicels usually 2-bracteolate. Calyx tube short, obconic, the lobes persistent. Corolla ovoid to bell-shaped, 5-lobed, the lobes erect or recurved. Stamens equal, usually included ; anthers awnless. Fruit a 10-seeded, berry-like drupe.’ [Bergen – Key and Flora, Northern & Central States p.182/1901].
Gelsemium sempervirens Ait.
Borderline half hardy, vigorous, slender, twining perennial with stems that spiral anti-clockwise, narrow glossy leaves, to 5cm long, and clusters, to 8cm across, of fragrant yellow flowers, to 3cm long, with darker throats, in spring and summer. To 6m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
