Hebe ligustrifolia
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Hebe ligustrifolia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Veronica ligustrifolia A. Cunn.
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 hectoris
- Hebe hulkeana
- Hebe leiophylla
- 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
An evergreen shrub up to 3 ft high, of lax habit; young shoots glabrous; leaf-buds without sinus. Leaves 1⁄4 to over 1 in. apart on the branchlets, scarcely or not stalked, narrowly oblong to narrowly lanceolate, 1 to 21⁄4 in. long, 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. wide. Flowers produced in slender cylindrical racemes 2 to 3 in. long from the terminal leaf-axils. Corolla white, small, scarcely 1⁄4 in. wide, with a funnel-shaped tube shorter than the calyx and four spreading pointed lobes. Calyx deeply divided into four lobes of ovate-lanceolate shape, pointed and often minutely downy on the margins. Blossoms in July and August.
Native of the North Island of New Zealand. Related to H. salicifolia which has leaf-buds with a distinct sinus, much larger, more slenderly pointed leaves, racemes much longer, the corolla-tube longer than the calyx, and is altogether a stronger, bigger shrub.