Lyonia macrocalyx (Anthony) Airy Shaw

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

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'Lyonia macrocalyx' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lyonia/lyonia-macrocalyx/). Accessed 2024-10-04.

Genus

Lyonia

Synonyms

Pieris macrocalyx Anthony

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

Tibet: Traditional English name for the formerly independent state known to its people as Bod now the Tibet (Xizang) Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. The name Xizang is used in lists of Chinese provinces.
appressed: Lying flat against an object.
axillary: Situated in an axil.
cordate: Heart-shaped (i.e. with two equal lobes at the base).
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.
glaucous: Grey-blue often from superficial layer of wax (bloom).
globose: globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
lanceolate: Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
ovate: Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
ovoid: Egg-shaped solid.

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

Recommended citation
'Lyonia macrocalyx' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/lyonia/lyonia-macrocalyx/). Accessed 2024-10-04.

A shrub 3 to 6 ft high; shoots glabrous, greyish brown. Leaves oblong-ovate, varying to lanceolate and ovate, 2 to 4 in. long, about half as wide, rounded at the base or occasionally slightly cordate there, slenderly pointed, entire, glabrous and bright green above, very glaucous and with minute, appressed, reddish down beneath. Flowers fragrant, pendulous in axillary racemes 3 or 4 in. long; corolla white, globose-ovoid, 2⁄5 in. long, 3⁄8 in. wide, with five minute, triangular lobes at the mouth, slightly red-downy outside, glabrous within; sepals 1⁄4 in. long, erect. Blossoms in July. Bot. Mag., t. 9490.

Native of N.W. Yunnan, China, and of S.E. Tibet; found in 1924 by Forrest and Kingdon Ward, both of whom sent seeds. From these, flowering plants were raised at Trewithen, Cornwall, and at Headfort, Co. Meath.