Plants, Pictures, and Information
- all about the Genus Daphne
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endemic to Lake Garda and Lake Idro region, Italy / upright forms can reach 0,3 m height - prostrate forms only 0,1 m high and often much wider / growing in crevices of calcareous rocks / sunny places but not too hot / evergreen / scented / hardy with protection / seed very small hidden within the dried calyx tube
white flowering selection - ‘Tremalzo’ / intensive red flowering selections are ‘Idro’ from H. Bauer and ‘Corna Blacca’ / Daphne petraea ‘Corna Blacca’ was found 1995 by Geert Borgonje - he sent cuttings to Blackthorne Nursery - R. White named this plant / other selections are Grandiflora, Michele, Persebee, Punchinello, Cima Tombea, Flamingo, Garnet, Lydora, Plena, ‘The Beacon’, Vanguard, and more
common German name for Daphne petraea is - Felsen-Seidelbast
Hybrids with Daphne petraea are:
Daphne x adamantina [= D. x suendermannii], Daphne x ambrosiaca, Daphne x beata, Daphne x fortunata, Daphne x hendersonii,
Daphne x jintyae [= D. x pudica], Daphne x kazbali [= D. x rollsdorfii], Daphne x mauerbachii, Daphne x mcbeathii,
Daphne x reichsteinii, Daphne x thauma, Daphne x whiteorum, Daphne x ‘Kelsey Ann’ = (Daphne velenovskyi x Daphne petraea ‘Grandiflora’)
and three parent hybrids:
Daphne x ‘Colinton Crown’ = Daphne petraea x Daphne eschmannii, and Daphne x ‘Bonnie Glen’ = Daphne petraea x Daphne x hendersonii ‘Rosebud’, both were made by Dr. Cyril Lafong
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Below left:
Daphne petraea ‘Grandiflora Plena’
Below right:
Daphne petraea ‘Punchinello’
Above- left and right:
Daphne petraea at Tremalzo, Lake Garda, Italy
Left:
Daphne petraea ‘Corna Blacca’ original plant at Corna Blacca, Lake Garda, Italy
Below:
Daphne petraea ‘Grandiflora’
award-winning plant
Below:
Daphne petraea ‘Tremalzo’
award-winning plant
Below:
Daphne petraea ‘Idro’
award-winning plant
Above left:
Daphne petraea ‘Cima Tombea’ former name was ‘Watts Clone’
Below left:
Daphne petraea ‘Flamingo’
Above right:
Daphne petraea ‘The Beacon’
Below right:
Daphne petraea ‘Vanguard’, a cross of ‘Cima Tombea’ x ‘The Beacon’
Above left:
Daphne petraea beautiful unnamed selection
Above right:
Daphne petraea ‘Garnet’
Below:
Daphne petraea ‘Lydora’
Left:
Daphne petraea ‘Persebee’
award-winning plant
Above left:
Daphne petraea -clone F-
Above right:
Daphne petraea -clone G-
Left:
Daphne petraea ‘Michele’
Below:
Daphne petraea ‘Michele’ blossoms close-up