Escallonia rosea Griseb.

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

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'Escallonia rosea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/escallonia/escallonia-rosea/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

Synonyms

  • E. pterocladon Hook.
  • E. montana Phil.

Glossary

glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
hybrid
Plant originating from the cross-fertilisation of genetically distinct individuals (e.g. two species or two subspecies).
midrib
midveinCentral and principal vein in a leaf.
receptacle
Enlarged end of a flower stalk that bears floral parts; (in some Podocarpaceae) fleshy structure bearing a seed formed by fusion of lowermost seed scales and peduncle.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Escallonia rosea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/escallonia/escallonia-rosea/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

An evergreen, bushy shrub usually 4 to 8 ft high, but twice as high when trained against a wall, or grown in very mild localities; branchlets downy and distinctly angled. Leaves narrowly obovate, 13 to 1 in. long, 18 to 14 in. wide; tapering at the base to a very short stalk, toothed; dark shining green above, paler beneath and glabrous on both surfaces except for a line of down on the midrib above. Flowers in slender racemes 112 to 3 in. long, terminating short, rigid, leafy twigs, the lower flowers solitary in the axils of small leaves. Petals white, 13 in. long, spreading at the ends, but erect at the base, and so close together as to form a tube; receptacle glabrous, top-shaped. Flowers fragrant, appearing from June to August. Bot. Mag., t. 4827.

Native of Chile from 390 30’ southward; introduced by Lobb in 1847. It is perhaps safer on a wall in the London district, but in the south and west counties it thrives excellently as a bush in the open. It has proved hardy in the open in the R.H.S. Garden at Wisley, where there are two examples about 6 ft high in Seven Acres. In Co. Wicklow, Ireland, it reached a height of 15 ft.

E. ‘Newryensis’. – A hybrid between E. rosea (pterocladon) and E. ‘Langleyensis’, raised at the Daisy Hill Nursery, Newry, Co. Down. It is said to be fast-growing and to make a good shelter-plant in milder parts.