Lyonia lucida (Lam.) K.Koch

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'Lyonia lucida' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lyonia/lyonia-lucida/). Accessed 2024-10-12.

Genus

Lyonia

Synonyms

Andromeda coriacea Ait.
Andromeda lucida Lam.
Lyonia marginata Lyonia marginata D. Don
Pieris nitida (Bartr.) Benth. & Hook. f.
Xolisma lucida (Lam.) Rehd.

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

calyx: (pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
corolla: The inner whorl of the perianth. Composed of free or united petals often showy.
entire: With an unbroken margin.
glabrous: Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
lanceolate: Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
ovate: Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
ovoid: Egg-shaped solid.

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Credits

New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.

Recommended citation
'Lyonia lucida' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lyonia/lyonia-lucida/). Accessed 2024-10-12.

Lyonia aff. lucida. Sarum, Surrey, UK. 27 August 2024. Image Tom Christian.

Editorial Note

Bean’s brief account of Lyonia lucida originally appeared beneath his discussion of L. mariana. We have transferred his text here, into its own article, pending a full revision of the genus when funds allow.

TC, September 2024.

This evergreen glabrous species of the southeastern USA is rarely cultivated. Branches green, three-angled. Leaves leathery, dark green, glossy, broad-elliptic, oblong, or oblong-ovate, entire; margins with a well-marked peripheral vein. Flowers clustered in the leaf-axils on the shoots of the previous year. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, reddish. Corolla ovoid to conic, about 1⁄4 in. long, white (red in f. rubra (Lodd.) Rehd.). Introduced 1765. Bot. Mag., t. 1045.

Lyonia aff. lucida. Sarum, Surrey, UK. 27 August 2024. Image Tom Christian.

The shining upper surface of the evergreen leaves on this plant supports the tentative identification of Lyonia aff. lucida. Sarum, Surrey, UK. 27 August 2024. Image Tom Christian.

Lyonia aff. lucida at Sarum, Surrey, UK. In this increasingly hot and dry part of Britain this plant continues to thrive despite growing next to the base of a large Fagus sylvatica. 27 August 2024. Image Tom Christian.