Dodecadenia grandiflora Nees

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Dodecadenia grandiflora' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/dodecadenia/dodecadenia-grandiflora/). Accessed 2026-03-07.

Family

Lauraceae

Genus

Dodecadenia

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Dodecadenia grandiflora' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/dodecadenia/dodecadenia-grandiflora/). Accessed 2026-03-07.

Dodecadenia grandiflora forming a handsome young foliage tree 11 m tall at Tregoning Mill Garden, Cornwall, UK, in May 2024. Image Owen Johnson.

An evergreen tree; twigs and leaves silky hairy at first, becoming glabrous. Leaves entire, elliptic-lanceolate, tapered at the apex, 3 to 4 in. long, reticulate, with six to eight pairs of impressed lateral veins. Flowers pale yellow, in small clusters, with exserted stamens. Fruits ellipsoid, about 1⁄2 in. long.

A native of the Himalaya from Kumaon eastward, and of Burma; introduced by A.D. Schilling from Nepal in 1976 and so far proving hardy at Wakehurst Place, Sussex, where one of three plants is 8 ft high and has already flowered.

This slightly crowded 14 m tree of Dodecadenia grandiflora at Trengwainton, Cornwall (centre, middle distance), was collected at 2700 m asl in Nepal in 1983; 7 May 2014. Image Owen Johnson.

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