A modern reference to temperate woody plants, including updated content from this site and much new material, can be found at Trees and Shrubs Online.

Dodecadenia grandiflora Nees

Modern name

Dodecadenia grandiflora Nees

An evergreen tree; twigs and leaves silky hairy at first, becoming glabrous. Leaves entire, elliptic-lanceolate, tapered at the apex, 3 to 4 in. long, reticulate, with six to eight pairs of impressed lateral veins. Flowers pale yellow, in small clusters, with exserted stamens. Fruits ellipsoid, about [1/2] in. long.

A native of the Himalaya from Kumaon eastward, and of Burma; introduced by A.D. Schilling from Nepal in 1976 and so far proving hardy at Wakehurst Place, Sussex, where one of three plants is 8 ft high and has already flowered.


Genus

Dodecadenia

Other species in the genus

[No species article available]