Brachyglottis perdicioides × B. Dunedin Hybrids
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New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.
Recommended citation
'Brachyglottis perdicioides × B. Dunedin Hybrids' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Brachyglottis bidwillii
- Brachyglottis buchananii
- Brachyglottis compacta
- Brachyglottis Dunedin hybrids
- Brachyglottis elaeagnifolia
- Brachyglottis greyi
- Brachyglottis hectorii
- Brachyglottis huntii
- Brachyglottis huntii × B. Dunedin Hybrids
- Brachyglottis laxifolia
- Brachyglottis monroi
- Brachyglottis perdicioides
- Brachyglottis repanda
- Brachyglottis rotundifolia
An evergreen shrub of bushy habit up to 6 ft high and 9 ft across, much-branched; young shoots white-felted. Leaves ovate or elliptic, blunt at the apex and base, finely toothed, 1 to 31⁄2 in. long, 1⁄2 to 13⁄4 in. wide, yellowish green above, white- or brownish-felted beneath. Inflorescences like those of B. perdicioides but flower-heads rather larger; flower-stalks and scales of involucre thinly felted, also glandular-hairy; ray-florets five to seven, bright yellow.
A garden hybrid, known from Tresco Abbey, Scilly; Glasnevin; and The Gardens, Ilnacullin, Glengariff, Co. Cork; it is also cultivated in New Zealand.