Rhamnus pumila Turra

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Rhamnus pumila' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rhamnus/rhamnus-pumila/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Genus

Common Names

  • Dwarf Buckthorn

Glossary

glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
globose
globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
midrib
midveinCentral and principal vein in a leaf.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Rhamnus pumila' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rhamnus/rhamnus-pumila/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

A low, sometimes procumbent shrub usually only a few inches high, of stunted habit; young shoots downy. Leaves variable in outline, sometimes roundish, sometimes narrowly oval, 34 to 2 in. long, more or less tapered at the base, mostly finely toothed; glabrous, or with down along the midrib and veins; veins parallel in from five to eight pairs; stalk downy, 18 to 13 in. long. Flowers pale green, the parts in fours. Fruits globose, blue-black.

Native of the mountains of Central and S. Europe, mainly on limestone; in cultivation 1752. It inhabits crevices of rocks, and is of the curious gnarled type common in such places. It has some beauty in fruit, and is best adapted for the rock garden, where it makes a neat and pleasing tuft, although less close and compact than in the wild.