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Caragana oreophila W. W. Sm.

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

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'Caragana oreophila' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/caragana/caragana-oreophila/). Accessed 2024-11-11.

Glossary

calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
corolla
The inner whorl of the perianth. Composed of free or united petals often showy.
imparipinnate
Odd-pinnate; (of a compound leaf) with a central rachis and an uneven number of leaflets due to the presence of a terminal leaflet. (Cf. paripinnate.)

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Caragana oreophila' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/caragana/caragana-oreophila/). Accessed 2024-11-11.

A bushy deciduous shrub 3 to 4 ft high; young shoots clothed with soft white wool, which persists to the second year, becoming darker. Leaves equally pinnate, 1 to 112 in. long, made up of four to eight pairs of leaflets, the main-stalk stiff, woody, clothed with white wool except at the spiny tip, persisting and becoming transformed into a slender naked spine the second year. On the second-year and older shoots the leaves are borne in clusters and their main-stalk does not become spiny. Leaflets oval, pointed, 14 to 38 in. long, clothed with grey silky hairs on both surfaces. Flowers solitary on a stalk 35 in. long, the corolla of the usual pea-flower shape, orange-coloured suffused with brown, about 1 in. long. Calyx tubular, with erect, awl-shaped teeth, about 12 in. long, silky. Seed-pods 34 to 1 in. long, woolly.

Native of W. China, discovered by Forrest in ‘open alpine pasture on the mountains in the north-east of the Yangtze Bend’; introduced in 1913. It is a neat-looking shrub, interesting for the whiteness of its young shoots and leaves and closely related to C. franchetiana. Like all the caraganas it should be given as sunny a spot as possible.