Daphne gnidium
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New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.
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'Daphne gnidium' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Daphne acutiloba
- Daphne alpina
- Daphne altaica
- Daphne arbuscula
- Daphne aurantiaca
- Daphne bholua
- Daphne blagayana
- Daphne × burkwoodii
- Daphne caucasica
- Daphne cneorum
- Daphne genkwa
- Daphne giraldii
- Daphne glomerata
- 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
An erect, bushy, evergreen shrub to 4 ft high. Branchlets densely clad with leaves throughout their length, downy when young. Leaves thick and brittle, glabrous, linear to lanceolate, terminated by a prickly point and up to 13⁄5 in. long. Flowers fragrant, borne in short racemes at the ends of the shoots and in the uppermost leaf-axils, forming all together a terminal, leafy panicle; perianth tube white.
Native of the Mediterranean region and the Canary Islands; introduced in the 16th century. It is not so much cultivated today as formerly, but is said to be hardy.