Veronica macrocarpa
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Veronica macrocarpa' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Hebe macrocarpa Cockayne & Allan
- Hebe myrifolia (Banks & Sol. ex Benth.) Cockayne
- Veronica myrtifolia Banks & Sol. ex Benth.
- Veronica latisepala Kirk
- Panoxis macrocarpa (Vahl) Raf.
- Veronica macrocarpa var. latisepala (Kirk) Cheeseman
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Veronica albicans
- Veronica albicans
- Veronica amplexicaulis
- Veronica armstrongii
- Veronica barkeri
- Veronica baylyi
- Veronica × bidwillii
- Veronica brachysiphon
- Veronica buchananii
- Veronica canterburiensis
- Veronica catarractae
- Veronica chathamica
- Veronica colensoi
- Veronica corriganii
- Veronica cupressoides
- Veronica decora
- Veronica decumbens
- Veronica dieffenbachii
- Veronica diosmifolia
- Veronica × divergens
- Veronica elliptica
- Veronica epacridea
- Veronica × fairfieldii
- Veronica × franciscana
- Veronica Garden Hybrids
- Veronica gibbsii
- Veronica glaucophylla
- Veronica haastii
- Veronica hectorii
- Veronica hulkeana
- Veronica × kirkii
- Veronica lavaudiana
- Veronica leiophylla
- Veronica × lewisii
- Veronica ligustrifolia
- Veronica linifolia
- Veronica × loganioides
- Veronica lyallii
- Veronica lycopodioides
- Veronica maccaskillii
- Veronica macrantha
- Veronica matthewsii
- Veronica obtusata
- Veronica ochracea
- Veronica odora
- Veronica parviflora
- Veronica pauciramosa
- Veronica pentasepala
- Veronica pimeleoides
- Veronica pinguifolia
- Veronica propinqua
- Veronica rakaiensis
- Veronica raoulii
- Veronica rigidula
- Veronica salicifolia
- Veronica salicornioides
- Veronica stenophylla
- Veronica stricta
- Veronica subalpina
- Veronica tetrasticha
- Veronica topiaria
- Veronica traversii
- Veronica venustula
- Veronica vernicosa
Distribution New Zealand North Island
A shrub 4 to 8 ft high with stout glabrous branches; leaf-bud without sinus. Leaves 21⁄2 to 6 in. long, 1⁄2 to 11⁄4 in. wide, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblong lanceolate, acute at the apex, dark green, almost glabrous, rather leathery in texture. Flowers white in simple racemes 3 to 6 in. long; bracts small, shorter than the pedicels. Calyx-lobes broad-oblong, obtuse or acute in the same flower. Corolla 1⁄4 in. or slightly more wide at the mouth; tube broad, twice as long as the calyx; corolla-lobes rounded at the apex, longer than the tube. Capsules glabrous, 1⁄4 to almost 1⁄2 in. long, much longer than the calyx.
Native of the North Island of New Zealand. A very striking species but also very tender.
The form decribed as var. latisepala, now reduced to synonymy, has flowers that are bluish purple or deep violet. Calyx-lobes short and broad. Racemes usually shorter than the leaves. The material figured under this name in the Botanical Magazine, n.s., t. 358, was taken from a plant in the Temperate House at Kew, propagated from one at Tresco Abbey in the Isles of Scilly. In this the flowers are of a deepish lavender-colour.
var. brevifolia (Cheeseman) L.B.Moore
Synonyms
V. speciosa var. brevifolia Cheeseman
A distinct variety confined to one locality at the northern end of North Island. Flowers reddish purple or violet-purple. Leaves 1 to 2{1/2} in. long, {1/2} to {3/4} in. wide, oblong-obovate to narrow-oblong. Racemes about as long as the leaves. The tender garden variety V. ‘Headfortii’, raised at Headfort, Eire, from New Zealand seeds, seems to be very near to this variety in its botanical characters. It has oblong-elliptic leaves about 1{5/8} in. long; inflorescences borne in great numbers from the upper leaf-axils; flowers violet with a white throat. The flowering season is spring and early summer.