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Not Philadelphus coronarius ... or is it ?

Verfasst: Sa Jun 08, 2024 10:07 pm
von BubikolRamios
Very old shrub, like 4m heigh.Loc.Slovenia, decorative garden. Densely flowered.
http://agrozoo.net/jsp/Galery_one_image ... 69607c971b ?


EDIT: or, does pubescent sepals & petiole , leaf a bit, lead to P . pubescens : https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/ ... &clid=4356

Re: Not Philadelphus coronarius ... or is it ?

Verfasst: So Jun 09, 2024 12:32 am
von abeja
Hi,
might be, very hairy calyx etc. Did you see the underside of the leaf? This should be hairy as well.
Flowers are described as quite big and (nearly) without odour - but several (5-7-9) in a raceme.
Did you see the bark? Should be non-peeling.

https://www.treesandshrubsonline.org/ar ... ladelphus/
Perhaps no genus of shrubs presents so many difficulties in the differentiation of its species as this. A few of them are well marked, like P. microphyllus, with small entire leaves; P. hirsutus, with exposed leaf-buds and united stigmas; and P. mexicanus, with similar leaf-buds but divided stigmas; but the majority offer no really distinctive characters. The difficulty is further increased by free hybridisation under cultivation, so that now a large proportion of cultivated plants are not species at all, but garden hybrids.
https://www.treesandshrubsonline.org/ar ... pubescens/
A robust shrub 10 to 20 ft high, as much or more in diameter; young shoots glabrous, green; the year-old shoots grey, not peeling. Leaves of the barren shoots oval or ovate, broadly tapered or rounded at the base, pointed, sparsely and irregularly toothed, 2 to 5 in. long, about half as wide, dull and almost glabrous above, downy beneath; with three or five prominent veins. Leaves of the flowering twigs smaller. Flowers pure white, 13⁄4 in. wide, not much scented; produced in June at the end, and in the uppermost leaf-axils of lateral twigs, usually seven or nine each. Calyx-lobes 2⁄5 in. long, lanceolate, and, like the individual flower-stalks, downy.
Native of the S.E. United States; introduced early last century. It is a fine free-flowering shrub, not uncommon in gardens, distinguished chiefly by the year-old bark not peeling, the numerous flowers in each raceme, and the downy calyx. One of the finest and noblest of mock oranges.