…are not identical to the P. flexuosa new shoots at Burncoose. Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa One multi-stemmed Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ is now full out and at…

…as here, to run wild. Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa Phyllostachys flexuosa A good clump now in the teeth of the wind on one of the three islands is…

…pachyphyllus Lithocarpus pachyphyllus Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa perhaps. Another one to watch and key out when properly out. Drooping, terminal panicles of flowers here. Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa Meliosma dilleniifolia…

…a species in its own right. To recap, we have (or had) plants originally labelled M. dilleniifolia subsp. tenuis, M. dillenifolia subsp. cuneifolia and M. dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa. The smaller…

…flexuosa – now Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp flexuosa Meliosma tenuis – now Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp tenuis New Trees (effectively the ninth reference volume of Bean) implies that Meliosma pungens is a…

…now as follows:Meliosma dilleniifolia (upright panicles of flowers) Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. cuneifolia (plumes of creamy white flowers with hawthorn-like fragrance) Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa (pendant terminal panicles of fragrant white…

…October. Magnolia denudata ‘Forrests Pink’ The Meliosma flexuosa up Hovel Cart Road has still got most of last year’s leaves on the small tree. Bizarre! So we will not easily…

…wiser. I had always thought this was Phyllostachys flexuosa but it does not seem to marry up with the pictures of the young shoots or the text. This one has…

…have labelled as:- Meliosma dilleniifolia subspa. cuneifolia Meliosma dilleniifolia subspa. flexuosa Meliosma dilleniifolia subspa. tenius (probably all samples were tenius)Whatever their true identity they are small low growing and spreading…