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identity (was Elaeocarpus) of a rare relic that survived the Ice Age.
With its distinctive fruit (with ‘u’ shaped kernel) held in terminal
panicles on a small evergreen tree with luxurious paddle-shaped
foliage. Disepalum petelotii BSWJ11690 will probably only appeal
to the lovers of the unusual, until we have had a chance to trial this
evergreen. It had an appeal that I found irresistible, with narrow
thick textured foliage and long black fruit held in tight umbels, the
result of their curious flowers which sound as they are well worth
growing. Elaeagnus umbellata CWJ12835 is a far more familiar
plant, smothered in its red white speckled fruit when we found it
on the island of Shikoku. Only forming small shrubs in the exposed
conditions we found them in. Embothrium coccineum 'Norquinco
Form' is an old favourite returning to our list this year thanks to
Dick Hayward, who seems to be blessed with a garden full of
suckers. Meanwhile Eucryphia glutinosa valued for its autumnal
colours, will be a welcomed newcomer. One of many seed
accessions from Ness Botanical Gardens, where it forms small
deciduous shrubby trees with pinnate foliage, smothered in their
sizeable white flowers July-August.What is it about Euonymus that
attracts so much attention all of a sudden? E. americanusa v.
angustifolius BSWJ12905 was well worth going all that way to
see growing in North Carolina, with its lanceolate foliage and fuzzy
red fruit.Whereas E. bungeanus BSWJ8782 inhabited the island of
Cheju-Dõ, South Korea, where it had formed small trees with
multiple stems bearing slender pointed serrulate foliage, while the
pink fruit was abundant. A phenomena that according to some
horticultural literature only occurs after a hot summer.We’ve never
seen such a good show on the plants in our garden after this last
summer! E. bungeanus v. semipersistens was also smothered in pink
fruit when we saw it growing in the world famous JC Raulston
Arboretum in North Carolina. This form retains its foliage for
longer than the normal type. E. carnosus CWJ12425 was from a
different environment altogether, in the high Central Mountains of
north-eastern Taiwan. Here it formed a small tree only 2.2m tall,
with a bare trunk at the base with many slender arching branches,
laden with oblong-ovate serrated leaves and cymes of four-angled
fruit on slender stalks. E. forbesiana HWJ890 was a collection from
steep mountain forest on the slopes of Fansipan northern Vietnam,
with broadly elliptic leathery crenate leaves. Bearing axillary
clusters of pink 4-5 lobed fruit on long pendant pedicells. E.
frigidus v. elongatus GWJ9378 is a charming very variable species
often seen as a small to medium size shrub as we encountered with
this collection in West Bengal in 2002. Where the arching slender
stems of ovate-lanceolate serrulate leaves, appeared evergreen, but
are deciduous in all but the very mildest climate.With the shortly
winged pink seed capsules hanging on long slender branched stalks
from their axils. E. hamiltonianus ssp. sieboldianus BSWJ10941
formed a large open shrub with very large ovate-oblong leaves to
20cm long, where we collected the fruit of this showy species, on
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