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              - all about the Genus Daphne

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Daphne x burkwoodii  Turrill (1949)

Hybrid parents: Daphne caucasica x Daphne cneorum

can reach more than 1,50 m height and also wide / semi-evergreen / sunny or half shadowed sites / hardy / scented /  

first hybrid of this parentage was made around 1920 but never validly published, today this plant is named Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Lavenirii’ /

the brothers Albert and Arthur Burkwood used 1931 Daphne caucasica as mother plant (after Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, Eighth Edition), ‘Albert Burkwood’ is the type specimen, ‘Somerset’ the plant that Arthur Burkwood cultivated

Daphne x burkwoodii sports are available in trade i.e.: ‘Golden Treasure’, ‘G.K. Argles’, ‘Briggs Moonlight’, ‘Carol Mackie’, ‘Astrid’

Daphne x burkwoodii is present in divers hybrids: Daphne x mantensiana, Daphne x ‘Pink Star’, Daphne x ‘Rosy Wave’,

Above:

Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Somerset’ rich flowering

Above left: Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Somerset’ flowering shrub

Above right: Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Somerset’ blossoms close-up

Below left: Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Carol Mackie’ inflorescences

Below right: Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Carol Mackie’  rich flowering shrub

Above left: Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Lavenirii’

Above right: Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Albert Burkwood’

variegated leaves at the bottom are from another plant

Below left: Daphne burkwoodii ‘Astrid’

Below right: Daphne x burkwoodii ‘G.K. Argles’

Left: Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Golden Treasure’ young plant

Below right: Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Golden Treasure’ flowers close-up

Right:

Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Briggs Moonlight’ shrub

Below:

flowers close-up of Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Briggs Moonlight’

Left:

Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Golden Treasure’ flowering shrub