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Carmichaelia odorata Colenso

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

Recommended citation
'Carmichaelia odorata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/carmichaelia/carmichaelia-odorata/). Accessed 2024-11-09.

Glossary

calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
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
'Carmichaelia odorata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/carmichaelia/carmichaelia-odorata/). Accessed 2024-11-09.

A shrub up to 10 ft high in a wild state; young shoots flattened, downy (especially towards the end), 112 in. wide. Leaves pinnate, 12 to 1 in. long; leaflets three to seven, each 18 to 14 in. long, wedge-shaped, notched at the end, downy, usually falling by early summer. Flowers 18 to 16 in. long, lilac-rose, fragrant, packed closely ten to twenty together on racemes 12 to 34 in. long; flower-stalk and calyx downy. Pod 14 in. long, ovate, terminated by a slender beak, one- or two-seeded. Bot. Mag., t. 9479.

Native of New Zealand, up to altitudes of 2,500 ft. It bears a wonderful profusion of blossom in June and July and the slender, pendulous branches give it a graceful shape. It needs a sunny, warm corner and shelter from north and east. The downy shoots and, early in the season, the pinnate downy leaves give distinctive characters. The leaves and leaflets of the larger dimensions given are only found on young seedling plants. There is a specimen 10 to 12 ft high on a wall in the Glasnevin Botanic Garden.