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Phormium ‘Veitchianum’ |
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06 Oct 2005 |
General information |
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Phormium ‘Veitchianum’ (syn ‘Williamsii Variegata’,‘Veitchii’ |
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Introduced by John Gould Veitch, 1866 |
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G Nicholson, The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening Vol. 5, 106 (1886). |
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Phormium tenax |
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Leaf colour |
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Yellow variegated |
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The background colour is green
but with extensive stripes of creamy-yellow especially towards the
centre of the leaf. The midrib and margins are narrowly striped with
red. |
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The green areas are more
extensive and the green colour is tinged with a bluish bloom. The midrib
and margins are more noticeably red. |
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Older leaves typically spilt into two at the tip. |
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Growth form |
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Upright |
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< 220 cm |
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< 9 cm |
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| This is one of the most upright growing cultivars. The leaves are rigid and erect to the very tip. In mature plants the leaves are very large and upright but there is a tendency to revert to plain green leaves. | ||
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Flowers and fruit |
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Published descriptions |
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| "a fine form, with shorter and narrower leaves, which are of a bright pea-green, and have broad stripes of a creamy-white, extending the entire length of each leaf". | ||
| Another old variety (1886), ‘Veitchianum’ (often seen as ‘Williamsii Variegata’), is newly re-introduced and still uncommon. It may well be a somewhat dwarfer sport of ‘Variegatum’ with the striping broken into bright yellow lines of varying width running through the centers of bluish leaves. Additional color comes from the bright orange borders on the leaves, which are typical of P tenax cultivars, but especially noticeable here. | ||
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