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.
Araujia sericifera Brot.
An unidentified Physianthus or Arauja species, twining or climbing perennials. Physianthus is now generally included with Araujia and Physianthus tricolor may be another Araujia species. Possibly Arauja sericifera Brot. which is described and illustrated here, although it is difficult to see how the specific epithet tricolor applies to this plant.
Arbutus andrachne L.
Spreading, sometimes shrubby tree with smooth, peeling, red-brown bark and white flowers in erect panicles in spring, followed by spherical, warty, orange-red fruit, which ripen in the autumn of the following year. To 6m by 6m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Arbutus canariensis Duham.
Half hardy shrub or small tree with oblong to lance-shaped leaves, to 12cm long, and erect terminal panicles of pale green, often pink-tinted flowers, about 1cm long, in summer, followed by warty, roundish fruit. To 9m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Arbutus unedo L.
Fully-hardy, spreading, sometimes shrubby tree with rough, shredding, red-brown bark and pendant panicles of white or pink flowers in autumn, followed by spherical, warty, red fruit, which ripen in the autumn of the following year. To 8m by 8m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Arbutus unedo L. var. photinifolia
Probably a foliar form of Arbutus unedo L., of which 8 varieties are listed in various editions of Paxton's Dictionary and 4 in Johnson's Dictionary. I have found no description of this plant.
Arbutus unedo L. var. serratifolia
See Arbutus unedo L. for more detail on the species. Serratifolia has serrated leaves.
Archontophoenix alexandrae F.Muell.
A small palm with a slender, columnar trunk, ringed with old leaf scars, pinnate, short-stalked leaves, to 2.5m long, composed of many linear leaflets, and nodding panicles, to 60cm long, of fragrant, greenish-white flowers in summer, followed by ovoid, bright red fruit, to 2cm across. To 12m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Archontophoenix cunninghamiana H.Wendl. & Drude
A slender-stemmed palm with a ringed trunk and arching pinnate leaves, to 4m long, and pendant racemes of small lilac flowers followed by ovoid red fruit. To 20m. [RHSE, Hortus, Beadle]. ‘The palm commonly planted as Seaforthia elegans (in the USA) is Archontophoenix cunninghamiana.’ [Hortus Second].
Ardisia colorata Roxb.
‘A. colorata. R. Shrubby. Leaves linear-lanceolar, entire, smooth ; veins nearly diverging. Panicles terminal, (large and highly coloured,) composed of a few, decompound, expanding branches. Umur-kulli,the vernacular name at Silhet, where the shrub is indigenous, and one of the most desirable species of the genus I have yet met with. It is in flower and seed the greatest part of the year. Trunk erect, with numerous, smooth, expanding branches and branchlets ; general height, in its native soil, about twelve feet. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, linear-lanceolar, entire, acute, veins parallel, and nearly diverging from the rib, about six or seven inches long, and about two broad. Floral leaves minute. Panicles terminal, solitary, very large; composed of several large, compound and decompound branches; all of which with their sub-divisions are smooth, and of a pretty deep, bright red colour. Bractes lanceolate. Calyx, corol, &c. as in the family. Berries somewhat oblate, smooth, succulent, red, size of a pea. Seed solitary, of a deep yellow in the base. Perisperm conform to the seed, very hard, some small rust-coloured specks on the surface, which in some places penetrate a little. Embryo transverse, serpentine, &c. as in Gaertner’s Anguillaria, i. 372. t.77.’ [Roxburgh FI vol.1 p520/1832].
Ardisia crenata Sims
Half hardy erect shrub with spiralled or alternate lance-shaped leaves, with scalloped margins, and terminal umbel-like corymbs of star-shaped pink flowers in summer, followed by ornamental, spherical red berries. To 1.5m. [RHSE]. Don describes Ardisia crenulata Vent. as having reddish-violet flowers followed by black berries.
Ardisia paniculata Roxb.
Frost tender, evergreen shrub or small tree with pointed, lance-shaped leaves with parallel veins, and terminal panicles of rosy pink flowers, followed by small red fruit. It is long-flowering and often carries flowers at the same time as fruit. [RHSD, Hortus].
Ardisia solanacea Roxb.
Shrub or small tree with glabrous, usually opposite, lance-shaped leaves and racemes of rosy-pink flowers in the terminal leaf axils. To 6m. [RHSD].
Argyrolobium andrewsianum Steud.
Half-hardy shrub with pure yellow flowers. To 60cm. [Don].
