Caldcluvia paniculata (Cav.) D. Don

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

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'Caldcluvia paniculata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/caldcluvia/caldcluvia-paniculata/). Accessed 2024-12-13.

Genus

Caldcluvia

Synonyms

Weinmannia paniculata Cav.

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

axillary: Situated in an axil.
capsule: Dry dehiscent fruit; formed from syncarpous ovary.
family: A group of genera more closely related to each other than to genera in other families. Names of families are identified by the suffix ‘-aceae’ (e.g. Myrtaceae) with a few traditional exceptions (e.g. Leguminosae).
lanceolate: Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
simple: (of a leaf) Unlobed or undivided.

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

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'Caldcluvia paniculata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/caldcluvia/caldcluvia-paniculata/). Accessed 2024-12-13.

The flowers of Caldcluvia paniculata attract large numbers of bees (Logan Botanic Garden, SW Scotland, 17th July 2021). Image Julian Sutton.

An evergreen shrub or small tree to 15 or 20 ft. Leaves simple, oblong-lanceolate, tapered at both ends, 2 to j in. long, short-stalked, with sharply toothed margins and recalling, except in their thicker texture, the leaves of the sweet chestnut. The small white flowers are borne in June and July in axillary corymbs about 2 in. wide. Fruit a many-seeded leathery capsule.

This species is fairly common in the Chilean beech forests from Concepcion to the Rio Palena; it was introduced in 1832 and again by Comber in 1925. It is not so worthy a representative of its family as Weinmannia trichosperma, but a handsome evergreen. It is probably of the same order of hardiness as Eucryphia cordifolia and Nothofagus dombeyi and should succeed where these thrive. It grows well at Logan in Wigtownshire, but Mr Colledge tells us that it needs protection from wind.

Well sheltered by taller trees at Logan Botanic Garden, SW Scotland, Caldcluvia paniculata makes a narrow-crowned specimen with sharply ascending branches (July 2021). Image Julian Sutton.

A later generation of Caldcluvia growing and flowering well at Logan Botanic Garden in July 2009. Image Owen Johnson.

Caldcluvia paniculata flowering at Tregothnan, Cornwall, UK, on 24th June 2016. Image Owen Johnson.

An inflorescence on the only specimen of Caldcluvia paniculata known to survive from the early 20th century introduction, at Castle Kennedy in SW Scotland. 30th June 2019. Image Owen Johnson.