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Seven-son flower / Sieben-Glocken oder Sieben-Söhne-Strauch (Heptacodium miconioides)
seen at my last visit to Botanical Garden, Frankfurt in October
for a Peaceful Bokeh Wednesday!
Berlin, Gardens of the World, Chinese Garden: The white blossoms of the seven-son flower turn red when fading in autumn
This migrant was taking advantage of our Heptacodium tree on October 1. We had two big waves of migration at the western end of Lake Ontario: the first on Sept 8/9 and the second on Sept. 24/25. Thanks to a warm October, we continued seeing occasional individuals throughout the month, the last pair being on October 24.... probably too late to make it to Mexico.
"Heptacodium miconioides, the seven-son flower, is a species of flowering plant. It is the sole species in the monotypic genus Heptacodium, of the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. The common name "seven-son flower" is a direct translation of the Standard Chinese name 七子花 qī zi huā.
Endemic to China, this species was discovered for Western horticulture in 1907 by the British plant hunter Ernest Wilson on behalf of the Arnold Arboretum (Boston, USA)"
You can read more information here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptacodium I photographed this beautiful tree at the JFK Arboretum & thankfully remembered to take a shot of its name tag too. Happy Flora Friday!
Photo 95/100 : my 100 x photos this year will be of foliage: so woodland scenes, individual trees, wild/garden plants and fallen leaves 🍁🌿🍀🌳
What an lovely and extraordinary looking shrub! it has not flowered yet but the lovely shape the leaves make is so striking. In a couple of weeks the clusters of small fragrant white flowers will open.
Rowallane Gardens
Heptacodium miconioides
seven son flower tree
Undertones - Soul Seven
Bracts are somewhere between a leaf and a flower. The best-known example is the poinsettia. Those big, red “petals” are actually bracts that have gained a bright color meant to draw pollinators into the tiny flowers in the center.
Seen while walking at Mill Lake Park in Abbotsford, British Columbia. (23-10-27-0876)
One of the local nurseries times its display of flowering shrubs to correspond with the plants' blooming season. It's so tempting to buy a few, but between the deer, the heavy shade and a car that's too small for most potted shrubs, the best way to have them is to add them to my collection of flower photos.
Our best Monarch migration day in several years: estimate @200 passing over our airspace in course of 2 hours. Lots of individuals stopped to "nectar-up" at our Heptacodium tree as they headed south along the west end of Lake Ontario
While most of their brethren focused on the Heptacodium, these 2 checked out the Japapnese anemones.
What an lovely and extraordinary looking shrub! it has not flowered yet but the lovely shape the leaves make is so striking. In a couple of weeks the clusters of small fragrant white flowers will open.
Rowallane Gardens
Heptacodium miconioides
seven son flower tree
James - Seven
Gone for another year? I haven't seen a hummer for at least 3 days despite the summery weather. Also, the Heptacodium flowers are beginning to drop.
The promise for a good Monarch year came true today! It's probably 5 or 6 years since we set our record of 50 Monarchs fueling up at our Heptacodium (7 Sons) tree. By mid-afternoon I gave up trying to count at 97, shattering the previous record. Meanwhile, far above us, a stream of hundreds of butterflies were flying the breezes headed due south - a sight on a scale I had not seen in probably 20 years!
I had been complaining that, despite an abundance of Tiger Swallowtails over the last 2 weeks, none of them were bothering to perch for the camera. Working in the front garden today, this guy drifted in on a breeze and spent several minutes relaxing in the Heptacodium tree.
A pleasant end-of-summer surprise was finding this Question Mark nectaring on the Heptacodium….along with a couple of Monarchs and Hummingbirds.
The Heptacodium tree is a wonderful late summer blooming magnet for Monarchs, Hummingbirds and bees.
Botanical Name: Heptacodium miconioides
Common Name: Seven-son Flower of Zhejiang
Family: Caprifoliaceae
Natural Distribution: Asia-temperate: China - South-Central (Hubei) & Southeast (Anhui & Zhejiang)
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
Taken in a private garden here in Daylesford...retired Monbulk (Victoria) nurseryman Don Teese recently commented on the ornamental value(s) of this species...he was heard to say..."What's not to like...". I now have two separate collections of Herbarium specimens (vouchers) ready for mounting...Cheers JB🌲🌲🌲
Thank you to all my Flickr friends for your support and understanding. When I can, I sit in the garden which is full of all kinds of birds right now. this week the crows have been splashing in the bird bath and lining up for turns. A hummingbird dive bombed a butterfly who was not the least bit disturbed. The butterflies are flitting everywhere and the scent of the heptacodium drifts through the air. Life is different but it's good!
Leycesteria formosa, the pheasant berry,[1] is a deciduous shrub in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Himalayas and southwestern China. It is considered a noxious invasive species in Australia, New Zealand, the neighbouring islands of Micronesia, and some other places.[2][3][4]
In the Himalayas, the shrub is frequently used in the traditional medicine of the various countries and peoples encompassed within the region.
Names
The genus name Leycesteria was coined by Nathaniel Wallich (one time director of Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta) in honour of his friend William Leycester, Chief justice and noted amateur horticulturist, in Bengal in about 1820;[5] while the Latin specific name formosa (feminine form of formosus) signifies 'beautiful' or 'handsome' (literally: 'shapely')[6][7] – in reference to the curious, pendent inflorescences with their richly wine-coloured bracts. There is a popular misconception, however, that the specific name derives from the place name 'Formosa', which is an abbreviation of the original Portuguese name for the island of Taiwan: Ilha Formosa "beautiful island".[8] Portuguese is a romance language (i.e. derived from Latin) and the adjective formosa has passed into it unchanged in spelling and meaning from the original Latin. Leycesteria formosa is so named in recognition of its beauty, not in acknowledgment of an origin on the island now known as Taiwan.[9][10] The Latin specific names of certain plants, given to indicate that they were native to Taiwan at a time when it was known as Formosa take such forms as formosae, formosana and formosensis, not the Latin adjective/Portuguese adjective-used-as-a-proper-noun formosa.[11]
Other common names include Himalayan honeysuckle, pheasant-eye, Elisha's tears, flowering nutmeg, spiderwort, Cape fuchsia, whistle stick, Himalaya nutmeg, granny's curls,[12]partridge berry,[13] chocolate berry,[14] shrimp plant/flower[15][16] and treacle tree/berry[17] It is also recorded as Symphoricarpos rivularis Suksdorf.[18] Contrary to the impression given by the respective common names, the plant is completely unrelated either to the nutmeg tree or to the fuchsia. Further contrary to the name "Cape fuchsia", it is not native to South Africa – the name being especially inappropriate, given that the family Caprifoliaceae as a whole is absent from Sub-Saharan Africa.[19]
Wallich was Danish by birth and perhaps could hardly be expected to forsee that within fifty years or so the name of the worthy Justice [Leycester(ia)] would be corrupted into 'Elisha's tears' – which yet seems strangely to suit the plant, with its pendent white flowers and its persistent bracts which darken to a sombre blood red as the season advances.
Garden Shrubs and their Histories
Alice M. Coats[20]
It is apparent from the above that the common name Elisha's tears falls into the same category (of jocular corruptions of the scientific names of plants into common names more congenial to rural British taste) as Aunt Eliza (for Antholyza)[21][22] and Sally-my-handsome for Mesembryanthemum.[23] It is also testament to a greater familiarity with the names of biblical figures – such as the Old Testament prophets – on the part of Britons of the nineteenth century, when compared to their counterparts in the twenty-first.[24]
Affiliation within Caprifoliaceae
The results of the genetic testing undertaken by Zhang et al. have revealed that Leycesteria is most closely related to the genera Triosteum (common name – "horse gentians"; Chinese: 莛子藨属; tíng zi biāo shǔ) and Heptacodium (Chinese common name: 七子花; qī zi huā; lit. "seven son flower"). Of these, only Triosteum has fruits that are berries, the fruits of Heptacodium being dry capsules.[25] These three genera belong to the subfamily Caprifolioideae of the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae, the other two genera in the subfamily being Lonicera, the (true) honeysuckles and Symphoricarpos, the snowberries.[26]
Description
It is found to be a hardy evergreen, requiring a considerable degree of moisture, and a situation slightly sheltered and shaded, though the colour of its bracts would be most probably be heightened by exposure to solar light. Propagation is effected by cuttings or layers.
Joseph Paxton
Paxton's Magazine of Botany Volume VI (1839) [27]
A deciduous, sometimes evergreen, half-woody, shrub-like plant (intermediate between a shrub and a herbaceous perennial) with young stems that are soft, hollow and upright in various shades of green, salmon pink, maroon and purple, 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in)[28] in height, which may only last for 2–5 years before collapsing and being replaced by new stems from the roots. Mature specimens, however, may have short, truly woody trunks clothed in rough, grey bark at the base. The leaves are opposite, dark green and usually cordate 6–18 cm (2.4–7.1 in) long and 4–9 cm (1.6–3.5 in) broad, with an entire, wavy or even deeply lobed margin and often an extended drip tip (commonly an adaptation to a wet climate). The flowers (bee-pollinated[29]) are produced on 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) long pendulous racemes; each flower is small, white, pale pink or rarely deep purplish pink, subtended by a purplish-pink bract, terminating – like the leaves – in a drip tip. The fruit is a berry, hard and deep pink when unripe, and fragile, soft (easily burst) and a deep purple-brown when ripe and measuring 1 cm in diameter.[30] The berries are eaten avidly by birds, which disperse the seeds in their droppings.[31]
The berries are unpleasantly bitter when unripe, but, once soft and deep purple-brown in colour, are edible and sweet, having a mild flavour reminiscent of toffee or caramel. Being a recent introduction to Europe, the plant lacks any traditional uses there. Wikipedia
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