Cytisus villosus Pourr.
Frost-tender, low, spineless shrub with soft spreading hairs, trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers, borne in groups of three from the leaf axils in spring. To 1.2m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Horticultural & Botanical History
‘Now that attention is being directed to the introduction of hardy flowering kinds into our hitherto too monotonous backgrounds and borders of shrubs, it is to be expected that the Cytisi will take a prominent place, and for this purpose none is better worth culture than the subject of the present plate, which is hardly known except in the gardens of the curious. It is a native of a wide extent of country in South Europe, from southern Switzerland and Italy to Greece, Bosnia and Bithynia. Anatolia is its eastern limit, whilst its western is the Alps of Dauphine. Mr. Moggridge, in his “Flora of Mentone,” says that it is one of the rarest leguminous plants of that district, occurring only on sandstone rocks in the Turin Valley. It must not be confounded with the C. hirsutus of the ” Flora Graeca,” which is C. spinescens, Sieber. According to “Hortus Kewensis,” it was cultivated by Mr. Philip Miller at Chelsea in 1739.’ [BM t.6819/1885].
Cultivated in England since 1640. [PD]. Don.
History at Camden Park
Listed only in 1857 catalogue [T.371/1857].
Notes
Published Dec 17, 2009 - 02:43 PM | Last updated Jul 21, 2010 - 11:53 AM
Cytisus villosus Pourr. | BM t.6819/1885 | BHL
| Family | Fabaceae |
|---|---|
| Category | |
| Region of origin | Northern Mediterranean |
| Synonyms |
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| Common Name | Three-flowered broom |
| Name in the Camden Park Record |
Cytisus triflorus |
| Confidence level | high |