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.
Nicotiana glauca Grah.
Half hardy, fast-growing, semi-evergreen shrub with long, arching shoots, ovate, fleshy, blue-grey leaves, and tubular, bright yellow flowers, to 4cm long. To 6m. [RHSE, Hortus, FNSW].
Noltea africana (L.) Endl.
Half hardy, evergreen, glabrous shrub with dark green elliptic leaves, to 7cm long, paler beneath, and axillary and terminal panicles of white flowers in spring. To 3m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Nothofagus cunninghamii Oerst.
Frost hardy, conical, evergreen tree with slender, downy shoots and roughly ovate, blunt-toothed leaves, to 2cm long, bronze-red in summer when young. To 12m, but much larger in the wild. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Olea capensis L.
Shrub or bushy tree with leathery oval leaves, to 6cm long, shiny above, pale beneath, and crowded terminal panicles of white flowers in summer and autumn. To 5m. [RHSD].
Olea europaea L.
Frost-hardy, slow-growing, evergreen tree, with opposite, leathery, elliptic leaves, to 8cm long, silvery beneath, and axillary panicles of tiny, fragrant, creamy white flowers in summer, followed by edible, ovoid green fruit, ripening to black. To 10m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Olearia argyrophylla (Labill.) F.Muell. ex Benth.
Frost tender, large shrub or small tree with large, silvery, elliptic leaves, to 15cm, unevenly toothed, and numerous, large, drooping, terminal corymbs of creamy, daisy-like flowers in spring and summer. To 10m. [RHSD, FNSW,
Orphium frutescens L.
Erect shrub with linear leaves and red flowers in showy cymes. To 60cm. [RHSD].
Orphium frutescens L. var. grandiflora
For a description of the species see Orphium frutescens L. Grandiflora is probably identical to frutescens but may be a form with larger flowers. In Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium [p.137] Salisbury gives Chironia grandiflora as a synonym of Chironia frutescens L. without further elucidation.
Osmanthus americanus Benth. & Hook.f
Frost-hardy, large evergreen shrub or small tree with leathery, lance-shaped leaves, to 15cm long, and short axillary panicles of fragrant white flowers in spring. [Hortus, Hilliers’].
Oxydendrum arboreum DC.
Large deciduous shrub or small tree, the lance-shaped leaves producing brilliant crimson and yellow autumn colour, the white flowers produced in terminal drooping racemes in summer. The leaves have a pleasant scent. Usually to c.6m in cultivation, taller in the wild. [RHSD, Hilliers’, Hortus].
Pachystachys coccinea (Aubl.) Nees
Frost tender, erect shrub with robust, simple or sparsely-branched stems, slightly wrinkled, heavily veined, elliptic leaves, and terminal spikes of tubular, 2-lipped scarlet flowers, with pale green bracts, to 15cm long, in winter. To 2m. [RHSE].
Paliurus spina-christi Mill.
Frost hardy, bushy, deciduous shrub with slender, thorny shoots, ovate, glossy leaves, to 4cm long, and small cymes of tiny, star-shaped yellow flowers in summer, followed by woody fruit. To 4m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Pandorea jasminoides (Lindl.) K. Schum.
Frost tender, vigorous twining climber with wiry, branching stems, pinnate leaves, composed of 5-9 leaflets, to 5cm long, and freely-produced cyme-like panicles of tubular white flowers, flushed crimson in the throat, from spring to summer. To 5m or more. [RHSE, Hilliers’, Hortus].
Pandorea jasminoides (Lindl.) K. Schum. var. alba
See Pandorea jasminoides (Lindl.) K. Schum. for discussion of the species. The variety alba has pure white, somewhat larger flowers. [RHSE]. There are a number of named cultivars.
Pandorea pandorana (Andr.) Steenis
The designation ‘sp. nova’ suggests an Australian plant and was often used in this sense by Macarthur. The only other Australian bignonia known at the time is Pandorea pandorana (Andr.) Steenis, although it seems unlikely that William Macarthur would have been unaware of this plant as it first botanically described in 1800 and introduced to Europe even earlier. It is a climber with creamish-white flowers with a purplish throat, native to the Sydney area. [FNSW, Beadle].
