Hebe hectoris
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Hebe hectoris' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Veronica hectori Hook. f.
Other taxa in genus
- Hebe amplexicaulis
- Hebe anomala
- Hebe armstrongii
- Hebe brachysiphon
- Hebe buchananii
- Hebe buxifolia
- Hebe canterburiensis
- Hebe carnosula
- Hebe chathamica
- Hebe colensoi
- Hebe cupressoides
- Hebe decumbens
- Hebe dieffenbachii
- Hebe diosmifolia
- Hebe elliptica
- Hebe epacridea
- Hebe × franciscana
- Hebe gibbsii
- Hebe gigantea
- Hebe glaucophylla
- Hebe gracillima
- Hebe hulkeana
- Hebe leiophylla
- Hebe ligustrifolia
- Hebe loganioides
- Hebe lycopodioides
- Hebe macrantha
- Hebe macrocarpa
- Hebe matthewsii
- Hebe ochracea
- Hebe parviflora
- Hebe pimeleoides
- Hebe pinguifolia
- Hebe propinqua
- Hebe rakaiensis
- Hebe recurva
- Hebe rigidula
- Hebe salicifolia
- Hebe speciosa
- Hebe stricta
- Hebe tetrasticha
A shrub 6 in. to 2 ft high, with stiffly erect, much-branched, round stems, almost completely hidden by closely appressed, scale-like leaves; shoots of the year, with their covering of leaves, 1⁄12 to 1⁄8 in. thick, the lateral ones springing from the stem at a narrowly acute angle. Leaves broadly deltoid, 1⁄10 to 1⁄6 in. long, each pair united by their margins at the base, thick, roundly convex on the exposed side, obtuse at the apex, the margins ciliate. Flowers 1⁄4 in. wide, white or pinkish, crowded in a small terminal head. Sepals narrowly oblong, about as long as the corolla-tube. Bot. Mag., t. 7415.
Native of the South Island of New Zealand. It is one of the very hardiest of the New Zealand hebes and makes an interesting small evergreen, but is rather shy-flowering. H. lycopodioides has equally stout stems, but they are distinctly four-angled, not terete as in H. hectoris.