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Santolina
chamaecyparissus
'Lemon Queen'
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Image: Stirton, Charles - NBGW
Common name:
hen wraig, lavender cotton 'Lemon Queen'
Family:
Asteraceae
Distribution:
Gardd/Garden
Hardiness:
(H5) Hardy-cold winter. -15 to -10°C (USDA 7b/8a)
Life form:
Evergreen shrub/sub-shrub • Llwyn bytholwyrdd
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
Santolina (san-toh-LEE-nuh): Latin; derived from sanctum linum (holy flax), an old name for green lavender cotton.
Geirdarddiad / Etymology:
chamaecyparissus (kam-ee-ky-par-ISS-us): Means like Cypress, false cypress.
Description:
An evergreen mound-forming shrub with silver-grey, finely divided, woolly aromatic leaves. In summer it produces pale yellow pompom-like flowers on thin stems, which are held above the foliage.
Links:
Royal Horticultural Society
Locations
1:
Boulder Garden/Yr Ardd Glogfeini 01b
(BOU01B)
• Accession: 2000-1524 • Provenance: Garden/Gardd
Area
Individual