Daphne pontica L.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Daphne pontica' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/daphne/daphne-pontica/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Genus

Glossary

perianth
Calyx and corolla. Term used especially when petals and sepals are not easily distinguished from each other.
apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Daphne pontica' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/daphne/daphne-pontica/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

An evergreen shrub 3 to 5 ft high, naked and tapering to a single stem at the base, spreading at the top; branchlets and leaves glabrous. Leaves obovate, 1 to 3 in. long, 12 to 114 in. wide; stalkless, tapered to the base, more abruptly so to the pointed apex, glossy green. Flowers yellowish green, fragrant, borne during April in pairs from the axils of bracts at the base of the new shoots, the whole forming a dense mass of blossom crowned by the tips of the pushing young twigs. Perianth tube 13 in. long, slender; lobes narrow, pointed, recurved. Flower-stalk about 13 in. long, forking near the top. Bot. Mag., t. 1282.

Native of Asia Minor; cultivated in 1752. Although the flowers of this daphne have no bright colour, they are fragrant and profuse, and the shrub is a cheerful evergreen. It likes a moist, loamy, or peaty soil in a sheltered, partially shaded spot. Useful for grouping near woodland walks.

From the Supplement (Vol. V)

The distribution given in the first impression, and in earlier editions, is incomplete. The species ranges from south-east Bulgaria through Turkey to the Caucasus.


D glomerata Lam

This species, said to be one of the most beautiful of the daphnes, is difficult to grow and rare in cultivation. It is a low, suckering evergreen, allied to D. pontica, native of Asia Minor and the Caucasus region. Flowers very fragrant, creamy white, ageing to pink; they are borne in axillary clusters, but owing to the crowding of the leaves near the ends of the shoots, appear to be borne in dense terminal heads – hence the specific epithet glomerata. Young plants of this species are in cultivation, raised from seed collected in Turkey by Cheese and Watson (seed number 2390) and by Mathew and Tomlinson (seed number 4356). Mr Eliot Hodgkin tells us that the late A. G. Weeks cultivated this species successfully in a peat-bed.