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Common Name: Black Beautyberry
This deciduous Mexican shrub is somewhat like Callicarpa americana. The arching branches bear clusters of small shiny berries that are black instead of the more common purple of other Beautyberries. It was collected... |
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Common Name: American Beautyberry
American Beautyberry is a deciduous multi-stemmed shrub with rather large velvety leaves that are coarsely toothed and opposite on the stems. . The flowers are small, purple, and in clusters around stems at the leaf nodes. Th... |
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Common Name: Beautyberry 'Bok Tower'
Like Callicarpa americana (which see) but with white berries. This selection from Polk County, FL by Jonathan Shaw, former director of Bok Tower Gardens is late flowering and fruiting. Perhaps the best white-fruited selection for the Deep... |
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Common Name: Pink Beautyberry
This Callicarpa americana (which see) is a selection with pink berries. It was found in east Texas by plantsman Matt Welch and introduced through the Mast Arboret um at Stephen F. Austin State University. Nacogdoches, Texas. The sho... |
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Common Name: Beautyberry 'Purple Issai'
Purple Beautyberry is, according to Dirr ( Manual of Woody Landscape Plans) is the "most graceful and refined of the species". It is also the most cold-hardy. This selection fruits heavily as a young plant and abundant small violet b... |
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Common Name: White Fruited Asiatic Beautyberry
Callicarpa dichotoma is, according to Dirr, the "most graceful and refined of the [various] species". It is also the most cold-hardy. This variety has white berries instead of typical purple and may get a bit taller than the typical form.... |
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Common Name: Beautyberry, Taiwan
Deciduous shrub with showy purple fruits. This species of beautyberry is a good choice for gardens in warmer climate zones. For detailed informaion see: More Info |
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Common Name: Taiwan Beautyberry
This Beautyberry is a large deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub native to Taiwan and little known in the U.S. It has large, 10-12 inch long fuzzy leaves and clustered small white berries. It is a striking novelty shrub for mild clima... |
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Common Name: Beautyberry Hybrid
A spontaneous hybrid Beautyberry we grew from seed collected from one of our large-leafed subtropical Callicarpa pilosissima. The pollen parent could be any of a number of other Callicarpa species in our collection. This plant has rather ... |
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Common Name: Poppymallow, Purple
This sun-loving low spreader has bright purple cup-shaped blooms with white throats. It flowers from spring through summer. The attractive foliage is deeply lobed. It is most common as a native in the eastern edge... |
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Common Name: Bottlebrush 'Clemson'
This small to medium sized evergreen shrub with bright red "bottlebrush" flowers is a native of Australia. Callistemons are generally considered subtropical plants but this one has survived outside for years at Clemson, SC., an area generall... |
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Common Name: Bottlebrush Cultivar
This bottlebrush is a medium, arching, evergreen shrub with bright red "bottlebrush" flowers in late spring. Originally offered by us as C. sieberi, but that species should have yellow flowers. Has proven winter hardy in Raleigh, NC. ... |
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Common Name: Heather 'Gold Haze'
Heather is an upright branching, small evergreen ground cover plant with dense, leafy branches that can form a mat. It is a plant that likes a cooler climate and a moist but well-drained acidic soil that is sandy and low in fertility. This golden t...
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Common Name: Sweet Shrub
Upright colony-forming deciduous shrub with dark maroon 1-2" flowers with many sepals and similar petals. Renouned for its fruity fragrance but not all plants have fragrant flowers or they are not consistently fragrant. A woodland plant but suited ...
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Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Athens'
(AKA 'Katherine') As with the species Calycanthus floridus (which see) but flowers are yellow and with good fragrance. One of several clones which have been found with yellow flowers. 'Athens' was provided to Dr. Mike Dirr by Jane Sy... |
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Common Name: Sweetshrub 'Venus' Hybrid
Deciduous shrub with glossy dark green leaves and showy white flowers resembling the flowers of Star Magnolia but a bit smaller. Flowers in mid summer. This exciting new introduction was bred by Dr. Tom Ranney in North Carolina combining the easte... |
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Common Name: Sweetshrub Hybrid
Calycanthus x raulstonii(C floridus x C sinensis)' Hartlage Wine' is a deciduous shrub intermediate between the parents. Perhaps not stoloniferous. This interspecific (or intergeneric if Sinocalycanthus is maintained as a genus) hybrid is... |
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Common Name: Crapnell Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in... |
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Common Name: Dongnan Sancha Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East an... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Mockorange
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East and this is one of t...
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Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia, 'Julia Mackintosh'
This seedling selection of Camellia sasanqua which occurred here at Woodlanders was selected and propagated by George Mitchell and named for the late Julia Mackintosh who with her husband Robert founded Woodlanders. I... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Pale Pink
Unknown cultivar. Pale pink flowers...
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Common Name: Camellia Cultivar
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is a nice form of Camellia japonica with semi-double flowers that are c... |
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Common Name: Peacock Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is an unusual selection of Camellia japonica with rather tubul... |
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Common Name: Picotee Flowered Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is a nice form of Camellia japonica. It is a famo... |
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Common Name: Red Camellia (named cultivar ?)
(unknown cultivar) Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is an unusual but nice form of Camellia japonica. This beautiful and ...
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Common Name: Long Carpel Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This is another species of Camellia that is little-known in America. Woodlan... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Tea-oil
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This less well-known species has less glossy leaves than most other... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Crimosn Candles
'Crimson Candles' is a fine hybrid camellia introduced by Camellia Forest Nursery in North Carolina. It is winter flowering with abundant small rose red blossoms which hold up well to below freezing nights. The plant has an uprigh... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Rose flower
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East an... |
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Common Name: Camellia 'Appleblossom'
A selection of Camellia saluensis with abundant pink flowers. Originally acquired from the Norfolk, VA garden of the late Fred Huette, a great plantsman and first director of Norfolk Botanical Garden. ... |
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Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia 'Leslie Ann'
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This Camellia sasanqua variety is a beautiful fall flowering plant ... |
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Common Name: Sasanqua Camellia, 'Misty Moon
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This Camellia sasanqua variety is a relatively new selection of thi... |
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Common Name: Camellia, Sasanqua 'Yuletide'
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This Camellis saaanqua variety is unique for the flowers which are ... |
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Common Name: Tea Plant
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Among the many other species, this one is of great economic importance as the s... |
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Common Name: Pink Tea Plant
A pink flowered form of Camellia sinensis (which see). The foliage is also somewhat reddish. ... |
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Common Name: Hybrid Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This plant is a hybrid between Camellia japonica 'K... |
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Common Name: Camellia, 'Daintiness' Hybrid
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. This one is a beautiful hybrid between Camellia japonica and a Chin... |
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Common Name: Camellia Hybrid, 'Donation'
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. 'Donation' is a hybrid between Camellia japonica 'Donkelaeri' and <... |
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Common Name: Yunnan Camellia
Two species of Camellia are commonly grown in American gardens. They are Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua. There are countless varieties of each. Many varied and quite different species of Camellia occur in the Far East an... |
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A shrubby but somewhat vine-like leguminous plant (pea family) with deciduous leaves resembling the leaves of the common green bean or soybean. Notable for the long spikes of coral orange flowers. A new introduction which we collected in Argentina... |
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Common Name: Southern Marsh Canna
This Canna is a natibve perennial with light green broad tropical looking leaves typical of Canna. This native species has yellow flowers and spreads freely in moist to wet soil or in shallow water but also grows well in ordinary garden soil.... |
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Common Name: Blue Wood Sedge
Ornamental Carex are tufted or clump-forming grass like plants. This clump forming sedge has glaucus blue to blue-green slightly quilted leaves to 1/2 inch wide. Drought tolerant once established but best in moist soil and semi-shade. Native to sou...
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Common Name: American Hornbeam
Ironwood is an attractive small dense deciduous tree with small leaves and small winged seeds. The gray bark is smooth and looks like a muscled arm. Does well in shade or sun in good moist soil. Ideal for lawn tree or for pleached ... |
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Common Name: Pignut Hickory
A large deciduous tree of finer texture than Mockernut Hickory (C. tomentosa). Pignut Hickory is widespread in eastern U.S., but like other hickories it is rarely offered by nurseries. Grows well in good soil t... |
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Common Name: Shagbark Hickory
This large deciduous tree has typical hickory compound leaves and attractive shaggy bark peeling in strips on the trunk. The hard shelled nuts are edible and delicious. This tree prefers moist, well-drained sites, but is adaptable.&... |
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Common Name: Hickory, Mockernut
This hickory is a large deciduous tree with compound leaves which turn bright yellow in fall. The hickory nuts are thick shelled, hard to crack, and tedious to pick out but very tasty. The tree has a narrow to broadly rounded cro... |
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Common Name: Bluemist Shrub
'First Choice' is a long-blooming compact form of this favorite shrub or subshrub. It is a hybrid between Caryopteris incana and Caryopteris mongolica. It produces dark purple densly clustered flowers ... |
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Common Name: Showy Senna 'Pale Yellow'
This is a pale yellow flowered selection of Cassia bicapsularis (which see). We had not seen this pale yellow form before it was shared with us by Joann Breland in Charleston. ... |
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Common Name: Chinese Chestnut
This bushy Chinese deciduous tree is widely grown as a substitute for the once widepread American Chestnut tree (C. dentata) that was essentially eliminated by the chestnut blight brought in from China in 1904. It produces large edib... |
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Common Name: Chinquapin, Alleghany
Deciduous large shrub occasionally tree-like. Oval serrated leaves and edible and very tasty nuts the size of a hazelnut enclosed in a spiny burr as with the related chestnut. Somewhat resistant to chestnut blight or better able to overcome it beca...
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Common Name: Australian Pine
This evergreen tree native to eastern Australia is called "Australian Pine" and "Swamp Oak" though it is neither a pine nor an oak and is not closely related to either. Also called "Beefwood" the graceful fine whipcord foliage may resem... |
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Common Name: Catalpa, Southern
Somewhat smaller than the Northern Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa) this deciduous tree has large heart-shaped leaves and in May it has large showy panicles of white flowers with numerous purple spots. It is spari... |
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Common Name: New Jersey Tea
New Jersey Tea is a small hardy deciduous shrub that is widespread in eastern North America where it occurs in a variety of habitats. It has small rather elm-like leaves and short showy panicles of small white flowe... |
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Common Name: Western Buttonbush
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Common Name: Japanese Plum Yew
Cephalanthus is and evergreen conifer similar to Yew (Taxus). This variety is prostrate in growth habit and is a good substitute for Taxus in the South. Plant in moist but well-drained soil. It will tolerate drought once it is esta... |
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Common Name: Chinese Plumbago
This "Plumbago" is a small shrub with small bristly leaves which turn reddish in fall. It has rich blue flowers in summer and fall. It should have sunny or semi-shady site with well-drained soil and good air circulation. It is native t... |
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Common Name: Blue Palo Verde
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Common Name: Elegant Jasmine
Erect or arching perennial freezing to the ground in zone 8. Woody shrub in the tropics. Showy reddish purple tubular flowers in terminal clusters late in growing season. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 inches of coarse sand...
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Common Name: Ladies of the Night Jasmine
Scandant or spreading shrub in frost free climates but perennial in zone 8. Very fragrant clusters of tubular yellowish flowers that are fragrant at night. Plant in sheltered spot where powerful fragrance at night will be enjoyed. Cut back plants aft...
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Common Name: Jasmine Hybrid
Scandant shrub with abundant clusters of lightly fragrant yellow tubular flowers. Mysteriously much hardier than either supposed parent species. In zone 8 it remains a woody shrub. Might be most effectively used if trained on a trellis....
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Common Name: Purple Jasmine
Erect or arching perennial freezing to the ground in zone 8 but a woody shrub in the tropics. It produces showy purple tubular flowers in terminal clusters late in the growing season. Cut back plants after the frost kills the tops. Mound 10 ... |
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Common Name: Hinoki Falsecypress
A small evergreen tree with bright green leaves in fern-like sprays. Somewhat random habit of growth but very attractive. One of many horticultural selections of this Japanes conifer. Plant in sun or semi-shade in well-drained soil....
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Common Name: Sawara Falsecedar 'Shiva'
Described as a silvery, soft textured juvenile foliage form of Atlantic Whitecedar, this plant was originally presumed to be Chamaecyparis thyoides. It now appears to be a Chamaecyparis pisifera. It was found as a seedling ... |
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Common Name: Leatherleaf
Chamaedaphne is a thicket forming low evergreen ericaceous shrub with leafy racemes of small white bell-like flowers. It is native to the eastern U.S. where it grows in sandy, acid bogs. It is a very cold-hardy evergreen shrub... |
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Common Name: River Oat Grass
Chasmanthium (Uiola) latifolium is a luxuriant and shade tolerant perennial grass with relatively wide leaf blades and taller spikes of drooping seed heads much like "Sea Oats". Attrative in the garden and seed stalks a great component fo... |
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Common Name: Fringetree, Chinese
A very ornamental small deciduous tree with heavy-textured oval glossy serrated leaves that look as though they would be evergreen. Abundant white feathery flowers in spring. Attractive light tan scaly bark. As an established tree in the landscape...
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Common Name: Fringe Tree
Fringetree is a deciduous large shrub or small tree, often multi-stemmed. A favorite landscape ornamental prized for it's abundant fleecy white flowers in spring followed on female plants by raisin-size purple fruits. Fringetree can be grown in su... |
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Common Name: Indonesian Cinnamon
The Indonesian Cinnamon is an evergreen tree with glossy 3-4 inch long leaves. It's bark is the source of as much as 80% of the commercial Cinnamon sold in the U.S. This tree is native to southeastern Asia... |
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Common Name: Rockrose
One of many kinds of "Rockrose" native to the Mediterranean region, this low evergreen thornless shrub has abundant white 2 inch flowers resembling single roses. These plants are not true roses. Plant in sunny or very lightly... |
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Common Name: Citrange, 'Morton'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. 'Morton' Citrange is similar to other Sweet Orange x Trifoliate Orange hybrids in foliage an... |
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Common Name: Sour Orange, Gou Tou
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas.The Gou Tou Sour Orange is reported to be widely grown in southeast Asia. The fruit is like a... |
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Common Name: Myrtle Leaf Orange
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. 'Chinotto' is a dense compact ornamental shrub or small tree with small pointed myrtle-like ... |
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Common Name: Mandarin 'Changsha'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is one of the most cold hardy evergreen citrus. This small tree produces tangerine-like fruit... |
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Common Name: Keraji Mandarin
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. Keraji Mandarin is a medium size evergreen tree with typical white fragrant ... |
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Common Name: NuClem Clementine
NuClem is a type of the familiar Clementine mandarin or tangerine that is rather special in our lineup of relatively cold hardy citrus fruits. Our friend and citrus guru Tom McClendon who shared this with us offers the following i... |
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Common Name: Lime, 'Rangpur'
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Common Name: Sanbokan Grapefruit
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This is a medium sized evergreen citrus tree with typical fragrant white flowers and flavorful yel... |
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Common Name: Calamandarin
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This citrus is possibly a hybrid between a Mandarin and a Calamondin orange. (Calamondin may be a Man...
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Common Name: Lemon, 'Meyer'
Small evergreen tree with fragrant purple tinted white flowers and large lemon-like fruits. A favorite container-grown citrus. The Meyer Lemon is probably a hybrid between a lemon and some other citrus. It was discovered near Peking, China in 1908... |
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Common Name: Procimequat
This little citrus is a complex hybrid between Eustis limequat and Hong Kong Kumquat. A very precocious little citrus with abundant orange fruits only about the size of a marble. Good lime flavor and perfect for a bottle of Corona! It flowers and ... |
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Common Name: Citrange, 'Benton'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. 'Benton', like most other Citranges is cold hardy, not very edible, but ornamental... |
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Common Name: Citrange, 'Troyer'
Woodlanders has been a leader in offering a wide range of Citrus and Citrus hybrids which are hardy outdoors beyond the normal Citrus growing areas. This hardy hybrid between the Naval Orange and the inedible but hardy Trifoliate Orange (Ponciris tri...
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Common Name: Sunquat
Sunquat is somewhat of a mystery Citrus. It apparently originated in Texas as a hybrid between a Meiwa Kumquat and either a lemon or a Clementine Mandarin. Whatever it is it produces good crops of golf-ball si... |
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Common Name: Rose Glorybower
Rose Glorybower is a suckering shrub with usually unbranched stems and relatively large heart-shaped toothed leaves. I has large flat terminal clusters of fragrant rosy pink flowers. It may freeze to the ground in cold weather but... |
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Common Name: Turk's Turban
Tall perennial with tyically unbranched leafy stems with long narrowly elliptic leaves. Stems are topped with long cluster of showy tubular white flowers which are followed by black berries. This is a striking plant but it can be invasive if allowe...
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Common Name: Harlequin Glorybower
This is a large decidous shrub or small tree that forms thickets from root suckers unless planted in an open area that is kept mowed. It is the hardiest of the Clerodendrons and a very attractive landscape plant in the right spot. It has heart-sha... |
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Common Name: Clethra, Cinnamon Bark
Cinnamon Clethra is a deciduous shrub that becomes a small tree. Valued for it's tall form, white racemes of fragrant flowers, and exfoliating cinnamon colored bark. A plant of well-drained mountain slopes where moisture is us... |
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Common Name: Clethra 'Hummingbird'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for the... |
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Common Name: Clethra 'Anne Bidwell'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for the... |
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Common Name: Pink Summersweet
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for their termin... |
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Common Name: Japanese Clethra
A tall tree-like deciduous Clethra with somewhat fragrant terminal racemes of white flowers in summer but best known for it's smooth polished grey to brown and exfoliating bark. A great plant for the winter garden where the bark can be the most beaut...
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Common Name: Mexican Clethra
This large evergreen shrub or small tree has long racemes of cinnamon scented white flowers in summer. Leaves are elliptic and toothed toward the terminal end. This is a relatively new introduction from Mexico by the folks at Yucca-Do Nursery in Texa...
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Common Name: Clethra 'Cottondale'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for the... |
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Common Name: Clethra 'Sarah'
Clethra alnifolia and the southern Clethra tomentosa are stoloniferous deciduous shrubs commonly called Summersweet or Sweet Pepperbush. They form colonies in moist acid soil and make good garden subjects. They are valued for the... |
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Common Name: Variegated Cleyera
This evergreen shrub is related to Camellia. This species is known only in the variegated form cultivated in Japan. The narrow leaves have a white margin. Grow in well-drained fertile soil with ample moisture. Sun or semi-shade. This is... |
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Common Name: Buckwheat Tree
Evergreen shrub or tree with small glossy leathery leaves. Can become much larger than size given in suitable natural habitat. Found along streams and in acid bogs in the lower southeastern coastal plains. This is a fine evergreen with early white f...
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Common Name: Pink Buckwheat Tree
This Cliftonia monophylla (which see) is a very attractive pink flowered selection of this normally white flowered plant. Selected in the Florida Panhandle by Jim Berry for whom we named this clone. Cliftonia is ... |
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Common Name: Clinopodium Hybrid
Clinopodium (Satureja) georgianum hybrid is a chance hybrid of uncertain parentage that was introduced by Woodlanders. It occurred here in the garden of Robert Mackintosh. It is possibly a Clinopodium geo... |
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Common Name: Trumpet Vine, Argentine Purple
This is a vigorous evergreen vine related to our native Crossvine. It bears glossy leaves and 5" long purple trumpet flowers in spring. It climbs by tendrils. It is relatively care free in warm climates but needs water in prolong... |
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Common Name: Snailseed, Laureleaf
This is a somewhat viney shrub grown in warm climates chiefly for its beautiful glossy polished leaves with three prominent parlallel veins. It is worthy of protected spot in zone 9 or even 8. Makes a good espalier plant on a sheltered wall. It is... |
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Common Name: Imperial Taro
This large tropical "Elephant Ear" is also listed as Colocasia esculenta var. antiquorum 'Illustris'. It is perennial in most of the South. The vivid green leaves are atriking being splashed with deep brownish purple color. Colocasias are... |
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Common Name: Stripe Stem Elephant Ear
A relatively new and possibly somewhat more hardy "Elephant Ear" selected by John Joicus at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. It is a very aquatic plant which spreads by rhizomatous runners. Leaves are blotched light and darker green, but the stems ar...
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Common Name: Elephant Ear, Black Sapphire Gecko
This new hybrid Elephant Ear is a subtropical perennial with very black large leaves on dark stems and with dark maroon undersides. This striking hybrid from Brian Williams of Brian's Botanicals in Kentucky is a must-have accent pl... |
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Common Name: Himalayan Mint Shrub
Colquhounia is a showy shrub with simple medium size leaves that are downy and rather rough. It produces spikes of reddish or scarlet flowers in summer or fall. Plant it in a sunny, well-drained site with good soil. It can be... |
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Common Name: Gray Conradina
Conradinas are dense aromatic low shrubs in the mint family with small, usually linear green or gray leaves, and small pale purple flowers. There are 6 or possibly 7 species in the southern U.S., primarily in Florida where they grow on sand or very ...
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Common Name: Conradina, Gray Mound
Conradina canescens is a low dense evergreen mint shrub with short, soft, needle-like leaves and white to blue-gray tubular flowers about 3/4 inch long. The plant is highly variable with respect to growth habit and foliage color.... |
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Common Name: Styx River Rosemary
Some years ago we introduced two selections of Conradina collected on Styx River in southern Alabama. We called these "Low Gray" and "Low Green" and hope these clones may still be in cultivation somewhere. In re-visitin... |
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Common Name: Cumberland Rosemary
Federally listed THREATENED species. CANNOT BE SOLD IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Low trailing evergreen shrub with aromatic Rosemary-like leaves. Other Conradina species are native to Florida and Gulf Coast of Alabama. This one is native to limited are... |
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Common Name: Lily of the Valley
This little perennial native to most of the Northern Hemisphere has wide lily-like leaves and very fragrant white flowers in spring. It is a long time favorite flowering groundcover in the North where it spreads freely. It is not ... |
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Common Name: Coreopsis, Chipola River
Chipola River Coreopsis is a relatively rare species known from only a few counties from southern South Carolina to north Florida. It is a choice perennial with basal leaves that are opposite, dark green, and with entire edges.... |
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Common Name: Threadleaf Coreopsis
This clump-forming native perenennial has thread-like leaflets and abundant yellow to orange daisy like flowers over long period in summer. It is a popular garden perennial for the sunny border and is a good plant for a well-draine... |
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Common Name: Roughleaf Dogwood
This is a deciduous shrub to small tree that is sometimes colonial. Creamy clusters of small flowers followed by white fruit enjoyed by birds. It is a plant naturally found on wet soils but is adaptable to garden conditions in sun or partial shade. ...
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Common Name: Dogwood, Dwarf Flowering
'Suwanee Squat' Dogwood is a most unusual form of this favorite flowering tree. It has typical white Dogwood blossoms in spring. Growth habit is very low and spreading, almost prostrate. Would spill down over wall or bank. There are lots of dogwoo... |
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Common Name: Dogwood, Hongkong evergreen
This evergreen dogwood native in southeast Asia is probably cloeely related to Cornus capitata and C. kousa angustata. There seem to be several botanical forms of this species but it is little known in cultivation in the U.... |
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Common Name: Chinese Dogwood
This Chinese dogwood is a spreading small to medium size deciduous tree with nice foliage and showy white-bracted flowers. Unlike our native American Dogwood, the bracts are pointed. It flowers about a month later than ou... |
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Common Name: Spike Winterhazel
This is a deciduous, wide spreading shrub with rounded light green leaves smaller than some other species of Corylopsis. It is valued for it's conspicuous late winter, early spring drooping spikes of bright yellow flowers appearing before the leaves...
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Common Name: American Smoke Tree
Our native smoketree is an uncommon small to medium size deciduous tree. Its common name is from the appearance of smoke when in fruit. It has broad oval leaves which are larger than the more commonly grown... |
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Common Name: Mayhaw
Mayhaw is a small rather thorny deciduous tree with small leaves and abundant white flowers in very early spring. These are followed by attractive cranberry size red fruits in May. These fruits yield the Deep South's famous Mayhaw... |
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Common Name: Parsley-leaved Hawthorn
The Parsley Haw is a distinctive and attractive small tree with shiny green dissected parsley-like leaves. The white flowers with red stamens appear in spring and are followed by red fruit. It is native to Piedmont and Coastal Pla... |
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Common Name: Montbretia
This is a perennial from a bulb or corm and a great plant for southern gardens multiplying well in good moist neutral or acid soil in sun or semi-shade. Showy spikes of orange-red flowers over long period in spring and summer. Grass-like flattened l...
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Common Name: Japanese Cedar
Japanese Cedar is a tall, pyramidal or conical, evergreen coniferous tree. The blue-green apressed needles may develop bronzy or purple-bronze winter color in cold climates. The reddish-brown bark exfoliates on the trunks. It is a... |
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Common Name: Cryptomeria, Barabits Gold
This quite dwarf form of Cryptomeria japonica (which see) is notable for the ascending gold tipped new growth and a size compatible with smaller spaces. Plant it in sun or partial shade in fertile well-drained soil. ... |
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Common Name: Chinafir
Chinafir is a large, pyramidal, often multi-trunked coniferous evergreen tree with rather long flattened needles in more or less two dimensional arrangement on twigs. It bears interesting small cones and is an attrative and somewhat curious ... |
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Common Name: Blue Chinafir
This is a silvery-blue needled form of Cunninghamia lanceolata (which see). Otherwise similar. ... |
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Common Name: Dwarf Chinafir
A friend in the Atlanta area shared this with us some years ago. It is a more compact dark green form of Cunninghamia lanceolata (which see) with shorter needles. It may even be a form of the related Taiwanese species, Cunninghamia konish... |
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Common Name: Sago Palm
Sago Palm is not a palm. Cycads are palm-like primitive plants more related to the ferns. The Sago Palm is native to Japan and is a favorite and very noticible landscape plant in the Deep South, U.S. It... |
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Common Name: Scrub Titi
Scrub Titi is a very rare shrub discovered in the early 20th century by J.K. Small. It occurred in desert-like scrub habitat in central Florida but was lost and taxonomically questioned for years. With Kenneth Wurdack we redis... |
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Common Name: Titi, Littleleaf
Cyrilla parvifolia is considered by some botanists to be a form of Cyrilla racemiflora but it is very distinct in having much smaller evergreen leaves and finer branching habit. It is found in northwest Florida. This selection is... |
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Common Name: Leatherwood
Titi is an evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub or small tree found in damp to wet acid soil from southern Virginia to the Gulf Coast. It is summer blooming with showy white racemes of tiny flowers at the ends of the branches. Though found on wet site...
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Common Name: Leatherwood
'Graniteville' Titi is a low growing selection of Cyrilla racemiflora (which see). This Woodlanders introduction was propagated from an almost prostrate plant we found some years ago on an eroded sandhills seepage slo... |
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Common Name: Rochford's Holly Fern
This evergreen Old World fern has dark leathery leaflets suggesting holly leaves. It is an attractive coarse fern well-suited to moist shady spots in the garden or against walls. It is a favorite in many Deep South gardens. ... |
