Leptospermum grandiflorum
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Leptospermum grandiflorum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Leptospermum rodwayanum Summerh. & H.F.Comber
- Leptospermum flavescens var. grandiflorum (G.Lodd) Benth.
Editorial Note
Bean treated this species as as L. rodwayanum (‘the receptacle [ ] densely appressed white pubescent and the sepals slightly pubescent’), distinct from L. flavescens var. grandiflorum (‘with receptacle and sepals glabrous’).
An evergreen shrub 10 ft high, of spreading habit, young shoots covered with fine grey down. Leaves grey-green, obovate to narrowly oval, 1⁄3 to 1 in. long, 1⁄8 to 3⁄8 in. wide, tapered to a very short stalk, pointed or rounded at the apex, at first with minute white hairs beneath and pitted with tiny dark glands. Flowers solitary, terminal on short lateral twigs, pure white, scarcely stalked, 11⁄4 in. wide, the mainly orbicular petals contracted to a short stalk. Receptacle obconical, densely white-pubescent; sepals ovate, covered with fine white down, and with membranous margins. Fruits woody, persisting many years, broadly top-shaped 3⁄8 to 1⁄2 in. wide, scaly on the flatly rounded summit.
Native of Tasmania; introduced by Comber in 1930. Plants were raised from his seeds at Nymans, Handcross, Sussex, and flowering shoots were shown by Colonel Messel at Vincent Square on 5 August 1936.