Chilean Myrtle, Dunedin Botanic Gardens, NZ Very pretty tree from the central Andes between Chile and Argentina. Grows well in the south of NZ. Luma apiculata or orange-wood. Taken by Liz 08 Dec 2019. Click on photo to enlarge. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading... Related 4 thoughts on “Chilean Myrtle, Dunedin Botanic Gardens, NZ” Add yours I like the way they have it planted with the phormium (??) at the base – love seeing the plants that grow in NZ, often new to me. 🙂 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply I’m glad you mentioned the lovely red plant which is probably the specially bred Cordyline Red Fountain (banksii x pumilio) produced by the well-known plant breeding Jury family from Taranaki, New Zealand. There’s quite a story to this plant. A good place to start is https://jury.co.nz/2010/05/26/the-jury-plants-cordyline-red-fountain/ and then https://jury.co.nz/2013/01/15/a-tale-of-two-plants/ LikeLiked by 1 person Reply An interesting read…especially that the second plant turned out to have identical DNA! Must be a nightmare for plant breeders. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply I’d say so. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Δ
I like the way they have it planted with the phormium (??) at the base – love seeing the plants that grow in NZ, often new to me. 🙂 LikeLiked by 1 person Reply
I’m glad you mentioned the lovely red plant which is probably the specially bred Cordyline Red Fountain (banksii x pumilio) produced by the well-known plant breeding Jury family from Taranaki, New Zealand. There’s quite a story to this plant. A good place to start is https://jury.co.nz/2010/05/26/the-jury-plants-cordyline-red-fountain/ and then https://jury.co.nz/2013/01/15/a-tale-of-two-plants/ LikeLiked by 1 person Reply
An interesting read…especially that the second plant turned out to have identical DNA! Must be a nightmare for plant breeders. LikeLiked by 1 person Reply
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I like the way they have it planted with the phormium (??) at the base – love seeing the plants that grow in NZ, often new to me. 🙂
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I’m glad you mentioned the lovely red plant which is probably the specially bred Cordyline Red Fountain (banksii x pumilio) produced by the well-known plant breeding Jury family from Taranaki, New Zealand. There’s quite a story to this plant. A good place to start is https://jury.co.nz/2010/05/26/the-jury-plants-cordyline-red-fountain/ and then https://jury.co.nz/2013/01/15/a-tale-of-two-plants/
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An interesting read…especially that the second plant turned out to have identical DNA! Must be a nightmare for plant breeders.
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I’d say so.
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