Hypericum hookerianum

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Hypericum hookerianum, Wight & Am. (H. oblongifolium, Hook., not Choisy). A rather compact shrub, to 6 ft., with terete bright reddish brown branches: lvs. among the largest of the genus, 1-4 in. long, evergreen, ovate or oblong, sessile, dark blue-green above, pale and glaucous below: corymbs several-fld., of large golden yellow fls. in profusion, 2-2 ½ in. diam.; sepals large, obovate; petals very large, firm, broadly obovate; stamens scarcely half as long as petals; styles recurved, longer than the stamens: caps, broad-ovate, longitudinally furrowed, ¾ in. long. Aug. Himalayas. B.M. 4949. Gn. 54, p. 490. G. 3:463. This is one of the most showy species. var. leschenaultii, Dyer (H. triflorum, Blume). Of slenderer and more graceful habit: fls. 2 ½ in. across; sepals acute. Himalayas, Java. Gn. 23:158.



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