Daphne alpina
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Daphne alpina' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Daphne acutiloba
- Daphne altaica
- Daphne arbuscula
- Daphne aurantiaca
- Daphne bholua
- Daphne blagayana
- Daphne × burkwoodii
- Daphne caucasica
- Daphne cneorum
- Daphne genkwa
- Daphne giraldii
- Daphne glomerata
- Daphne gnidium
- Daphne × houtteana
- Daphne × hybrida
- Daphne jasminea
- Daphne jezoensis
- Daphne juliae
- Daphne kamtschatica
- Daphne kiusiana
- Daphne kosaninii
- Daphne laureola
- Daphne longilobata
- Daphne × mantensiana
- Daphne mezereum
- Daphne × neapolitana
- Daphne odora
- Daphne oleoides
- Daphne papyracea
- Daphne petraea
- Daphne pontica
- Daphne pseudomezereum
- Daphne retusa
- Daphne rodriguezii
- Daphne × rossetii
- Daphne sericea
- Daphne sophia
- Daphne striata
- Daphne sureil
- Daphne tangutica
- Daphne × thauma
A dwarf, deciduous shrub 6 to 18 in. high, with short, erect, downy twigs. Leaves oblanceolate, 1⁄2 to 13⁄4 in. long, 1⁄6 to 1⁄3 in. wide, often crowded towards the end of the shoot, grey-green, downy on both sides. Flowers white, fragrant, produced during May and June in terminal clusters of six to ten, the cylindrical, slender tube 1⁄3 in. long, downy outside; the four lobes lanceolate, pointed; fruit yellowish red, rather downy.
Native of the European Alps; in cultivation 1759. Suitable for the rock garden, especially in association with limestone, on which formation it is always found. A neat plant of no great beauty, but pleasing for its fragrance.