Prunus lusitanica
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Read about Prunus lusitanica in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Prunus lusitanica, Linn. (Padus lusitanica, Mill. Laurocerasus lusitanica, Roem.). Portugal Laurel. Tree, 20 ft. tall, but usually grown as a tub-plant and comparable with Laurus nobilis: lvs. thick and leathery, ovate-lanceolate to long-lanceolate, sharp-serrate: fls. white, in racemes that exceed the lvs., appearing in late spring or early summer: fr. round-oval, nearly black, small. Spain, Portugal, and Canary Isls.—It is a small tree in its native places, but becomes a bush farther north. It is sometimes planted in the open in our southern states, but in northern parts it is wintered inside. There is a form (var. angustifolia, Hort.) with narrow lvs., another (var. myrtifolia, Nichols.) with small lvs. and compact habit, and another (var. aureo-variegata, Hort.) with yellow-variegated lvs., and one (var. variegata, Nichols.) with lvs. variegated white. Var. azorica, Nichols., is a free grower with red sts.: lvs. more coriaceous and more coarsely serrate than the type: racemes short and densely fld.: shrubby. Azores. G. 30:123. Var. Hixa, DC. Lvs. narrower and more oblong than in the type, about 5 in. long: racemes 6-8 in. long, the fls. less crowded. Madeira and Canary Isls. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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