Azara dentata Ruiz & Pavon

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

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'Azara dentata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/azara/azara-dentata/). Accessed 2024-04-24.

Genus

Azara

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

alternate: Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
ovate: Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Azara dentata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/azara/azara-dentata/). Accessed 2024-04-24.

Foliage on Azara dentata at the Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park, UK. 20 August 2008. Image John Anderson.

An evergreen shrub 8 to 12 ft high, sometimes a low tree, with downy branchlets. Leaves alternate, ovate or oval, 1 to 11⁄2 in. long, deep shining green above, very downy beneath, furnished with stipules; both the leaves and stipules are toothed. Flowers fragrant, borne on short, branching corymbs, the yellow stamens, as in A. petiolaris, giving the flower whatever beauty it possesses. A rather tender shrub, introduced from Chile about 1830. It is only hardy against a wall at Kew, and was killed or badly damaged in many gardens in the cold winters of 1961–3. It survived both at Edinburgh, however, and is 10 ft high there in a sheltered position. The leaves have a bitter taste.

Foliage on Azara dentata GMO 325 at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (27 October 2016). From a plant collected in Región V (Valparaíso, Provincia de San Felipe de Aconcagua) Chile. Image Jan De Langhe.

Leaves on Azara dentata GMO 325, with the lamina ovate to elliptic; and to the bottom at right 2 stipules (RBG Edinburgh – 27 October 2016). Image Jan De Langhe.

Pale lamina lower surfaces with prominent vein-pattern on Azara dentata GMO 325 (RBG Edinburgh – 27 October 2016). Image Jan De Langhe.

Densely pubescent lamina lower surface and branchlet on Azara dentata GMO 325 (RBG Edinburgh – 27 October 2016). Image Jan De Langhe.

Prominent leaf-like stipules on Azara dentata GMO 325 (RBG Edinburgh – 27 October 2016). Image Jan De Langhe.

Denticulate lamina margin on Azara dentata GMO 325 (RBG Edinburgh – 27 October 2016). Image Jan De Langhe.

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