Garrya × thuretii Carr.

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

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'Garrya × thuretii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/garrya/garrya-x-thuretii/). Accessed 2024-09-09.

Genus

Garrya

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

apex: (pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
axillary: Situated in an axil.
glabrous: Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
hybrid: Plant originating from the cross-fertilisation of genetically distinct individuals (e.g. two species or two subspecies).
lanceolate: Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
ovate: Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
pollen: Small grains that contain the male reproductive cells. Produced in the anther.

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

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'Garrya × thuretii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/garrya/garrya-x-thuretii/). Accessed 2024-09-09.

Garrya × thuretii is a cross between Garrya elliptica and the very rare G. fadyenii made by Gustave Thuret in Villa Thuret, southern France. Botanical Garden of Ghent University. 20 April 2016. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

A quick-growing, robust evergreen up to 15 ft high; branchlets stout, downy. Leaves narrow-oblong, 21⁄2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 11⁄4 in. wide, tapering equally to both ends, the apex ending in a short, abrupt tip; upper surface becoming glabrous and glossy, lower one covered with a greyish down; stalk 1⁄2 in. long. Catkins more or less erect, greyish, terminal and axillary, 11⁄2 to 3 in. long, with the bracts in pairs at 1⁄3 in. apart, ovate-lanceolate, pointed, and very hairy.

A hybrid raised about 1862 at Antibes by Gustave Thuret, who crossed G. fadyeni with the pollen of G. elliptica. This shrub is interesting but of little ornament. At Kew it is 12 ft high, and as hardy as the pollen parent. Where the winters are not severe it forms a large, vigorous bush, but is disfigured by exceptionally severe frost. It blossoms in June.

The upper surface of the leave of Garrya × thuretii becomes glabrous and glossy. Botanical Garden of Ghent University. 20 April 2016. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

The lower surface of the leave of Garrya × thuretii is covered with a greyish down. Botanical Garden of Ghent University. 20 April 2016. Image Guillaume Mamdy.

Terminal catkins of Garrya × thuretii are greyish, with very hairy ovate-lanceolate and pointed bracts. Botanical Garden of Ghent University. 20 April 2016. Image Guillaume Mamdy.