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Daphne × hybrida
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Daphne × hybrida' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Daphne dauphinii Hort.
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 gnidium
- Daphne × houtteana
- 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
This is an evergreen shrub with very much the aspect of D. odora, between which and D. collina it is supposed to be a hybrid. Its leaves are narrowly oval, 1 to 3 in. long, glossy green above, glabrous. Flowers in a terminal cluster, very fragrant, about the size of those of odora and of a similar colour (reddish purple), but readily distinguished from those of that species by the hairiness of the tube outside, also of the lobes. This character it inherits from D. collina. This hybrid daphne is somewhat hardier than D. odora, but is not really happy out-of-doors near London, needing at least winter shelter there. It is essentially a south and west country evergreen. Propagated by cuttings. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 320.