20+ Carpenteria Californica Elizabeth Bush Anemone

The individual flowers are smaller than the species but there are more of them and they have the same amazing fragrance. It is closely related to the genus mock orange genus.

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Carpenteria californica elizabeth bush anemone

The sole species in the genus carpenteria in the hydrangea family is an evergreen shrub native to california. Description by xera plants. Carpenteria californica also called bush anemone is a handsome california native shrub and the variety elizabeth is prized for its dense growth habit and clusters of lovely flowers.

Bush anemone moderate growing evergreen shrub 4 to 6 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide with 3 inch fragrant white flowers may to august. With a 6 12 inch trunk in the wild. Common names include tree anemone and bush anemone.

Those flowers are brilliant white with yellow stamens and sometimes twenty of them can be found at the tips of the stems. Good in sun or part shade with average to low water no water near the coast. Good under native oaks resistant to oak root fungus.

Cultural requirements as the species. The 4 to 5 inch long narrow lanceolate leaves are dark glossy green. Tree anemome elizabeth bush anemone elizabeth california anemone elizabeth genus.

Variety or cultivar elizabeth elizabeth is an upright open evergreen shrub with peeling pale brown bark elliptic to lance shaped dark green leaves and fragrant cup shaped white flowers in late spring or early summer. California bush anemone a beautiful native evergreen shrub 5 7 ft. A named form of bush anemone that was selected for its more compact habit to 5 tall and as wide in 5 years and more profuse flowering.

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