Decaisnea insignis

Decaisnea insignis (Griff.) Hook. f. & Thomson (incl.: D. fargesii Franch.) (Himalayas, W China) – An exceptional escape from cultivation or throw-out. A single individual was discovered in woodland in Balen (Mol) in 2015.

Records of Decaisnea in the wild in Europe appear to be fairly exceptional. Wilmore (2000) reported about its escape in Yorkshire in the British Isles as did Crawley (2014) for Berkshire.

Selected literature:


Crawley M.J. (2014) Berkshire Plants: an update of the Flora of Berkshire 2005-2014: 982 p. [available online at: http://bsbi.org.uk/vc_22_in_2014.pdf]

Spongberg S.A. & Burch I.H. (1979) Lardizabalaceae hardy in temperate North America. J. Arnold Arbor. 60: 302-315. [available online at: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9255723#page/310/mode/1up]

Wilmore G.T.D. (2000) Alien plants of Yorkshire. Yorks. Nats. Union, Bradford.

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith