Daphne jezoensis
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Daphne jezoensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- D. kamtschatica var. jezoensis (Reg.) Ohwi
- D. pseudomezereum sens. Tanaka, not A. Gray
Other taxa in genus
- Daphne acutiloba
- Daphne alpina
- Daphne altaica
- Daphne aurantiaca
- Daphne bholua
- Daphne blagayana
- Daphne × burkwoodii
- Daphne caucasica
- Daphne cneorum
- Daphne collina
- Daphne genkwa
- Daphne giraldii
- Daphne × houtteana
- Daphne × hybrida
- 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 stoutly branched, glabrous, summer-deciduous shrub. Leaves produced in autumn and shed the following summer, up to 3 in. long and 11⁄4 in. wide, oblanceolate with a cuneate base, almost sessile, glossy above. Flowers pale to deep yellow in mostly terminal clusters; tube funnel-shaped; lobes ovate, about 1⁄4 in. long, on cultivated plants opening in November and December, sometimes later, but on wild plants in early to late spring. Fruits red. Bot. Mag., n.s., t.613.
A native of northern Japan; discovered and named by Maximowicz, but first described by Regel in 1866 from a cultivated plant; introduced to Britain by H. Money-Coutts, who distributed seedlings raised from seeds collected in northern Honshu. Both its foliage and flowers are moderately frost-resistant, and the plant itself is hardy. Unlike most daphnes, it is intolerant of chalky soils.
For further details see Brickell and Mathew, op. cit., pp. 119–22 and the latter’s article accompanying the plate in the Botanical Magazine.