Hypericum xylosteifolium
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Hypericum xylosteifolium' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Androsaemum xylosteifolium Spach
- H. inodorum Willd., not Mill.
Other taxa in genus
- Hypericum acmosepalum
- Hypericum addingtonii
- Hypericum aegypticum
- Hypericum androsaemum
- Hypericum augustinii
- Hypericum balearicum
- Hypericum bellum
- Hypericum buckleyi
- Hypericum calycinum
- Hypericum cerastoides
- Hypericum chinense
- Hypericum choisianum
- Hypericum cordifolium
- Hypericum coris
- Hypericum × cyathiflorum
- Hypericum densiflorum
- Hypericum 'Eastleigh Gold'
- Hypericum empetrifolium
- Hypericum ericoides
- Hypericum forrestii
- Hypericum frondosum
- Hypericum galioides
- Hypericum grandifolium
- Hypericum 'Hidcote'
- Hypericum hircinum
- Hypericum hookeranum
- Hypericum hypericoides
- Hypericum × inodorum
- Hypericum kalmianum
- Hypericum kouytchense
- Hypericum leschenaultii
- Hypericum lobbii
- Hypericum monogynum
- Hypericum × moseranum
- Hypericum × moserianum
- Hypericum nudiflorum
- Hypericum olympicum
- Hypericum patulum
- Hypericum prolificum
- Hypericum reptans
- Hypericum revolutum
- Hypericum stellatum
- Hypericum subsessile
- Hypericum wilsonii
An elegant shrub 3 to 4 ft high, evergreen, with long, slender, usually unbranchcd stems compressed or slightly two-winged towards the top, and luxuriantly leafy (the leaf-pairs from 1⁄4 to 1 in. apart). Leaves oblong or ovate, 1 to 2 in. long, dull dark green, rounded at the apex, inodorous. Flowers small compared with the size of the plant, and wanting in beauty, often solitary at the end of the shoot, but on strong shoots produced in small terminal clusters, they are 3⁄4 or 1 in. across, with narrow, fragile petals, linear sepals, and three styles. Stamens longer than petals.
Native of north-east Turkey and south-west Georgia. In its graceful arching habit and strong vigorous growth this species is attractive, but it is one of the most disappointing in its flowers, which appear a few at a time from July to September. It has a creeping root stock, and eventually forms a large dense thicket; it is thus easily increased by division.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
This is in cultivation at Wakehurst Place, Sussex, and other collections, from Lancaster 325, collected in Russia near Batumi in 1979.