Lomatia

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Lomatia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lomatia/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

Family

Proteaceae

Species in genus

Glossary

alternate: Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Lomatia' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lomatia/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

Lomatia myricoides flowering on a terrace on Isola Madre, Lake Maggiore, Italy, June 2021. Image Tom Christian.

A genus of about a dozen species of evergreen small trees or shrubs with alternate or opposite leaves, the cultivated species of which come from South America and Australia. It is allied to Embothrium and has flowers of a similar structure. The generic name is from the Greek and refers to the winged edge of the seeds.

From the Supplement (Vol.V)

A note on the cultivated species, by A. D. Schilling, will be found in The Plantsman, Vol. 6 (3), pp. 138–45.

Lomatia dentata from Chile is now cultivated in a few UK collections from Christian 225. Here is the parent tree in Chile's San Fabián de Alico valley on 23 April 2019. Image Tom Christian.

Lomatia myricoides flowering on a terrace on Isola Madre, Lake Maggiore, Italy, June 2021. Image Tom Christian.

Lomatia ferruginea is more widely grown for its arresting foliage than for its flowers. This example was photographed at Nymans, UK, in late September 2017. Image Tom Christian.

Lomatia tinctoria shown by Burncoose Nursery at the RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival, July 2022. Image John Grimshaw.

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