24+ Calycanthus Heritage Wine

The flowers have a wine red centre and white outsides. It has very large wine red flowers.

Growing With Plants May 2010

Calycanthus heritage wine

The flowers are wine red touched with cream in the centre lightly scented and produced over a long period from early to late summer. Suggested uses beds and borders city cottage informal wallside and trellises wildlife woodland. Features very fragrant brown to reddish brown flowers 2 across which bloom at the ends of short branchlets in may.

This is a new and extremely rare hybrid between calycanthus and sinocalycanthus. Species in 1991 at the jc raulston arboretum at north carolina state university. It makes a dense bushy medium sized shrub with glossy green aromatic foliage yellow in autumn.

The creation of the new genus xs. Calycanthus hartlage wine is a cross between the native eastern sweetshrub calycanthus floridus and chinese sweetshrub calycanthus chinensis. Since not all plants are available at the nursery at any given time please contact us for current availability before coming to the nursery.

This is a relatively new and very rare hybrid between calycanthus and sinocalycanthus. The flowers of hartlage wine are burgundy red with a hint of cream towards the centre and are borne from late spring to early autumn. This unique intergeneric hybrid is the first successful cross between calycanthus floridus our native sweetshrub or carolina allspice and sinocalycanthus chinensis its rare chinese counterpart.

It was named after student richard hartlage who crossed sinocalycanthus chinensis chinese species with calycanthus floridus u s. Read more inocalycalycanthus has an intriguing story. It has very large wine red flowers.

Diamond Rise Gardener Update 23 Mqy 2013