Daphne caucasica
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Daphne caucasica' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Daphne acutiloba
- Daphne alpina
- Daphne altaica
- Daphne aurantiaca
- Daphne bholua
- Daphne blagayana
- Daphne × burkwoodii
- Daphne cneorum
- Daphne collina
- Daphne genkwa
- Daphne giraldii
- Daphne × houtteana
- Daphne × hybrida
- Daphne jezoensis
- Daphne laureola
- Daphne mezereum
- Daphne × napolitana
- Daphne × neapolitana
- Daphne odora
- Daphne oleoides
- Daphne petraea
- Daphne pontica
- Daphne pseudomezereum
- Daphne retusa
- Daphne rodriguezii
- Daphne × rossetii
- Daphne sophia
- Daphne striata
- Daphne tangutica
A deciduous shrub up to 4 to 6 ft high, with flowering twigs downy; barren young twigs less so, or glabrous. Leaves produced along the entire shoot, oblanceolate, tapered at the base and oftener rounded than tapered at the apex, 1 to 13⁄4 in. long, 1⁄3 to 1⁄2 in. wide; glabrous, pale green above, somewhat glaucous beneath. Flowers glistening white, fragrant, produced during May and June in terminal heads of usually four to twenty blossoms; the perianth 1⁄3 in. across, with ovate lobes; tube 1⁄3 in. long, cylindrical, silky outside; ovary slightly downy. Bot. Mag., t. 7388.
Native of the Caucasus; many times introduced and lost. It is not outstanding, but is pleasing in its fragrance and for its abundant flower-clusters borne at the end of crowded, short, leafy shoots springing from the previous year’s growth. It differs from D. alpina in its glabrous leaves.