Azara serrata Ruiz & Pav

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Family

Flacourtiaceae

Genus

Azara

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

glabrous: Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
globose: globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
inflorescence: Flower-bearing part of a plant; arrangement of flowers on the floral axis.
umbel: Inflorescence in which pedicels all arise from same point on peduncle. May be flat-topped (as in e.g. Umbelliferae) to spherical (as in e.g. Araliaceae). umbellate In form of umbel.

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New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.

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'Azara serrata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/azara/azara-serrata/). Accessed 2025-02-15.

Azara serrata at Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire, UK. June 2010 Image John Grimshaw.

Editorial Note

W.J. Bean discussed this species in a footnote to his article on Azara dentata. We have separated his comments here onto a standalone page, pending a full revision of this genus.

TC, December 2023.

This species, also a native of Chile, has been confused with [Azara dentata]. The true plant has downy branchlets like A. dentata, but the leaves are larger, not felted beneath, often nearly glabrous. The inflorescence too is very distinct, the flowers being arranged in a globose umbel borne at the end of a slender, downy stalk, up to 1{1/2} in. long.

From the Supplement (Vol. V)

A. serrata – For a note on this species by A. J. Anderson, see The Garden (Journ. R.H.S.), Vol. 102, pp. 37–8 (1977). At that time it had been growing for eight or nine years in a south-facing border in Anderson’s garden at Englefield Green, Surrey. He remarks that precautionary cuttings, if not needed, make excellent pot-plants.

Detail of the flowers of Azara serrata (Yorkshire Arboretum, UK, May 2024). Image John Grimshaw.

Foliage on Azara serrata at the Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium (28 March 2016). Image Jan De Langhe.

Leaf-like stipules (above centre) and true leaves with the lamina elliptic on a long petiole of Azara serrata (Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium – 28 March 2016). Image Jan De Langhe.

Nearly orbicular stipules and glabrous lamina lower surfaces on Azara serrata (Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium – 28 March 2016). Image Jan De Langhe.

Glossy lamina upper surfaces on Azara serrata (Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium – 28 March 2016). Image Jan De Langhe.

Serrate-dentate lamina margin on Azara serrata (Arboretum Het Leen Eeklo, Belgium – 28 March 2016). Image Jan De Langhe.