Bupleurum fruticosum L.

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

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'Bupleurum fruticosum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/bupleurum/bupleurum-fruticosum/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Other taxa in genus

    Glossary

    alternate
    Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
    apex
    (pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
    entire
    With an unbroken margin.
    glabrous
    Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
    lax
    Loose or open.
    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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    Credits

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

    Recommended citation
    'Bupleurum fruticosum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/bupleurum/bupleurum-fruticosum/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

    An evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub, of lax habit, 5 to 8 ft high, with slender, not much divided branches, and glabrous, purplish young shoots. Leaves alternate, firm, narrowly obovate, stalkless, tapering at the base, rounded or with a short, bristle-like tip at the apex, entire; 2 to 312 in. long, 34 to 112 in. wide; quite glabrous, and of a bluish green. Flowers small, yellow, produced in a terminal umbel 3 or 4 in. across. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 408.

    Native of S. Europe and the Mediterranean region; introduced more than three hundred years ago. It is not completely hardy but grows and flowers well at Kew where protected by other shrubs. It has been grown there as a wall plant, where it reached a height of 10 ft. In most maritime districts and in the south-western counties it succeeds admirably, and its yellow flower-clusters and blue-green foliage make a very effective contrast. It flowers from July to September, and is propagated easily by cuttings. It is one of the best shrubs for planting on exposed cliffs near the sea, and is very well adapted for chalky districts.