Campanula lactiflora M.Bieb.

Horticultural & Botanical History

‘Plants in a cultivated state frequently lose more or less of their pubescence; so in the present instance while the stem remained hispid, the leaves and the calyxes shewed very little hairiness, the former were rough on the under surface, but not hairy; the latter smooth, except towards the inner points of the segments, unevenly serrulate: serratures glandular and red-coloured.  Flowers in a close panicle, white.  M. Marschall von Bieberstein remarks, that the flowers are white or of a very dilute blue colour: this excellent botanist collected it in the pastures about Wladi-Kawkas castle, in the mount Kaischaur, one of the Caucasean alps, and first described the species.  A hardy perennial of considerable beauty. […] The plant from which our drawing was taken, was communicated by Messrs. Loddiges and Sons, nearly three years ago, in July 1815.’  [BM t.1973/1818]. 

History at Camden Park

Seed order to Hurst and McMullen, Seedsmen and Florists of London, on 8th April 1846.  [MP A2933-1, p.132].

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