Gaultheria codonantha
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Gaultheria codonantha' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Gaultheria adenothrix
- Gaultheria antipoda
- Gaultheria cuneata
- Gaultheria eriophylla
- Gaultheria forrestii
- Gaultheria fragrantissima
- Gaultheria hirtiflora
- Gaultheria hispida
- Gaultheria hispidula
- Gaultheria hookeri
- Gaultheria miqueliana
- Gaultheria mucronata
- Gaultheria nummularioides
- Gaultheria oppositifolia
- Gaultheria ovatifolia
- Gaultheria procumbens
- Gaultheria pyroloides
- Gaultheria rupestris
- Gaultheria shallon
- Gaultheria tetramera
- Gaultheria trichophylla
- Gaultheria wardii
- Gaultheria × wisleyensis
- Gaultheria yunnanensis
A large, bushy, evergreen shrub up to 8 ft high, with long graceful shoots, bristly when young. Leaves alternate, distichous, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, cordate at the base, from 21⁄2 to 7 in. long, 1 to 5 in. wide, with two thin marginal veins and two stouter ones running out with the midrib to the point; beautifully net-veined between and covered with short brown hairs beneath; stalk very short. Flowers in very short-stalked axillary clusters; pedicels with two bracteoles at the base. Corolla white, often banded with red when fully open, cup-shaped, 3⁄4 in. across, glabrous within; filaments glabrous. Fruits purplish black, 3⁄4 in. wide. Bot. Mag., t. 9456.
Native of the Assam Himalaya; found by Kingdon Ward in the Delei Valley in 1928 at 5,000 to 7,000 ft and introduced by him under his number 8024. It flowered at Exbury in November 1933 and was given an Award of Merit when shown at Vincent Square the same month. A very striking and handsome shrub, which is only hardy in the mildest counties. The flowers are unusually large for the genus.