Veronica propinqua
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Veronica propinqua' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Hebe propinqua (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
- Leonohebe propinqua (Cheeseman) Heads
- Veronica cupressoides var. variabilis N.E.Br.
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 macrocarpa
- Veronica matthewsii
- Veronica obtusata
- Veronica ochracea
- Veronica odora
- Veronica parviflora
- Veronica pauciramosa
- Veronica pentasepala
- Veronica pimeleoides
- Veronica pinguifolia
- 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
This is very closely related to the well-known V. cupressoides, having the same small, scale-like leaves and bearing considerable resemblance in leaf and twig to a cypress. The leaves, however, are more closely set on the twigs, blunter and thicker; the plant is dwarfer (1 to 3 ft high), the seed-vessel is 1⁄8 in. long (1⁄12 in. in cupressoides) and of ovoid instead of obovoid shape. The flowers are white (pale blue in cupressoides), about 1⁄4 in. wide, produced in small clusters of four to eight near the end of the twigs.
Native of the South Island of New Zealand; cultivated in this country since about 1870, but was at first thought to be V. salicornoides (q.v.). It was also confused with V. cupressoides.