Daboecia cantabrica
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Read about Daboecia cantabrica in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Daboecia cantabrica, Koch (D. polifolia, Don. Boretta cantabrica, Kuntze. Menziesia polifolia, Juss.). Irish Heath. To 2 ft.: branchlets glandular pubescent: Lvs. elliptic, the uppermost narrower, revolute at the margin, whitish tomentose beneath, shining and dark green above,¼-½in. long: racemes many- fld.; corolla ⅓-½ in long, purple in the type. June-Oct. Ireland, W. France, N. Spain, Azores. Gn. 52:344; 71, p. 442; 76, p. 490. Gn. M. 3:336. R.B. 3:121. Gt. 47:1450. S.B.F.G. 2:276.—There are many varieties, as alba, Dipp., with white fls. (Gn. 22, p. 302); bicolor, Dipp. (var. striata, Hort.), with white- and purple-striped fls.; rosea, Rehd. (Boretta cantabrica rosea, Koopmann), with pink fls.; atropurpurea, Dipp., with dark purple fls.; nana, Rehd. (Menziesia polifolia nana, Lodd. M. polifolia pygmaea, Arb. Kew). Dwarf; with small and narrow Lvs. L.B.C. 20:1907. Alfred Rehder. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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