Escallonia rosea 0
Author: August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach (1814-1879)Family: Escalloniaceae
Genus: Escallonia
Synonym(s): Escallonia montana
English name: Rosy redclaw
Zone: Chile
Description
This Andean species is widely distributed in Chile. In Argentina, it only grows in Chubut province, in Lago Menéndez and Lago Puelo, associated with humid Valdivian forest.
Botanical Description
These shrubs reaching 3m in height, with many extended stems, the youngest reddish-brown, straight, rigid, costate, and conspicuously winged. The wings are undulate, and shortly pubescent; the oldest stems with a papyraceous cortex detached.
The leaves are subcoriaceous, lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, rarely oblong, acute apex, frequently 3-6 fasciculate, the distal ones gradually smaller, sub-crenated-serrate, margin with glands, 1-2.5 x 0.4-0.7cm. The adaxial face is pubescent only on the middle nerve, subsessile.
The flowers are arranged in leafy pseudo-racemes of 7-10 flowers. The pedicels are 3-4mm long, puberulous. It has 2 bracteoles, lanceolate, 2mm long, with glands in the margin. The hypanthium is glabrous or scarcely pilose, turbinate, 1-1.3mm long. The calyx tube is circa 1-1.5mm long, calyx lobes triangular-subulate, ciliolate, sometimes with glands in the margin, 1-1.5mm long. The petals are linear-spathulate, white or pink, 8-10 x 2-3mm. The stamens are 6-10mm long, intrastaminal disc markedly conical, 2-2.5mm long. The style is 7-8mm, apex connate, free to the base. The stigma is capitate.
The capsule is 4-5mm, turbinate, brown, dull.
References
- Taxonomic revision of Escallonia (Escalloniaceae) in Argentina, Sede, Silvana and Denham, Silvia. Systematic Botany 2018 Vol. 43 pag. 364-396. DOI
The leaves are subcoriaceous, lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, rarely oblong, acute apex, frequently 3-6 fasciculate, the distal ones gradually smaller, sub-crenated-serrate, margin with glands, 1-2.5 x 0.4-0.7cm. The adaxial face is pubescent only on the middle nerve, subsessile.
The flowers are arranged in leafy pseudo-racemes of 7-10 flowers. The pedicels are 3-4mm long, puberulous. It has 2 bracteoles, lanceolate, 2mm long, with glands in the margin. The hypanthium is glabrous or scarcely pilose, turbinate, 1-1.3mm long. The calyx tube is circa 1-1.5mm long, calyx lobes triangular-subulate, ciliolate, sometimes with glands in the margin, 1-1.5mm long. The petals are linear-spathulate, white or pink, 8-10 x 2-3mm. The stamens are 6-10mm long, intrastaminal disc markedly conical, 2-2.5mm long. The style is 7-8mm, apex connate, free to the base. The stigma is capitate.
The capsule is 4-5mm, turbinate, brown, dull.
References
- Taxonomic revision of Escallonia (Escalloniaceae) in Argentina, Sede, Silvana and Denham, Silvia. Systematic Botany 2018 Vol. 43 pag. 364-396. DOI
References for the genus
- A multilocus phylogenetic analysis of Escallonia (Escalloniaceae): Diversification in montane South America, Zapata, Felipe. American journal of botany 2013 Vol. 100 pag. 526-45. DOI
- Escallonia: the genus and its chromosomes, Zielinski, Quentin B. Botanical Gazette 1955 Vol. 117(2) pag. 166-172. JStor
- Taxonomic revision of Escallonia (Escalloniaceae) in Argentina, Sede, Silvana and Denham, Silvia. Systematic Botany 2018 Vol. 43 pag. 364-396. DOI
- Factores que determinan la comunidad de hongos micorrícicos arbusculares del bosque esclerófilo en Chile central mediterráneo, Patricia Alejandra Silva Flores. Universidad de Concepción 2018. Address
- Escallonia: the genus and its chromosomes, Zielinski, Quentin B. Botanical Gazette 1955 Vol. 117(2) pag. 166-172. JStor
- Taxonomic revision of Escallonia (Escalloniaceae) in Argentina, Sede, Silvana and Denham, Silvia. Systematic Botany 2018 Vol. 43 pag. 364-396. DOI
- Factores que determinan la comunidad de hongos micorrícicos arbusculares del bosque esclerófilo en Chile central mediterráneo, Patricia Alejandra Silva Flores. Universidad de Concepción 2018. Address
General specifications
Biological type: shrub
Frost resistance: 27ºF
Leaf color: dark green
Flower color: pink
Reproduction mode: hermaphrodite plant whoes flowers produce both male and female gametes
Specifications for the Mediterranean basin
Adult size (h x w): 9,8ft x 9,8ft
Sun exposure: full sun (Sun hours: >6h Foliage: evergreen
Growth: fast
Flowering time from June until August
Specific information for our garden
Planting substrate: 40%Compost+20%Peet+40%Sand
Plant watering: 3x a week pH 5.5
Logical sequence of containers for: Eucalyptus; forestry plate, forestry pot 3L, Airpot 12L, Airpot 50L, Airpot 800L
Propagation is done by cuttings
Frost resistance: 27ºF
Leaf color: dark green
Flower color: pink
Reproduction mode: hermaphrodite plant whoes flowers produce both male and female gametes
Specifications for the Mediterranean basin
Adult size (h x w): 9,8ft x 9,8ft
Sun exposure: full sun (Sun hours: >6h Foliage: evergreen
Growth: fast
Flowering time from June until August
Specific information for our garden
Planting substrate: 40%Compost+20%Peet+40%Sand
Plant watering: 3x a week pH 5.5
Logical sequence of containers for: Eucalyptus; forestry plate, forestry pot 3L, Airpot 12L, Airpot 50L, Airpot 800L
Propagation is done by cuttings
Sowing instructions
AUTUMN Sow the seeds at 4mm depth in the Well Drained Seed Sowing Mix between 64-72°F. During germination keep the substrate moist and in daylight. The seeds germinate in 3-3 weeks.
Experiences in the garden
11-06-19A Obtaining seeds from seed provider Chile Flora Seeds collected in '....'. (Cultivated from unknown origin)
02-10-19 Sown 2 seeds in a tray and germinated at 29-10-19 but the seedlings did not survive in Serre4.
Protocol: Autumn 4mm Sowing mix+Sand 64-72°F Damp substrate+Light
16-09-24 Sown 30 seeds in a seed plate F, they did not geminate in Serre3.
Protocol: Autumn 4mm Sowing mix+Sand 64-72°F Damp substrate+Light
. . . 2020A Production of 5 plants in our nursery (Cultivated from unknown origin)
11-01-22 2x Dead plant because of watering problem: Serre5 F2.
28-11-22 2x Dead plant: No information: Serre5 F2.
03-07-24 1x Dead plant because of watering problem: Serre9 C6.