This is an evergreen shrub with very much the aspect of D. odora, between which and D. collina it is supposed to be a hybrid. Its leaves are narrowly oval, 1 to 3 in. long, glossy green above, glabrous. Flowers in a terminal cluster, very fragrant, about the size of those of odora and of a similar colour (reddish purple), but readily distinguished from those of that species by the hairiness of the tube outside, also of the lobes. This character it inherits from D. collina. This hybrid daphne is somewhat hardier than D. odora, but is not really happy out-of-doors near London, needing at least winter shelter there. It is essentially a south and west country evergreen. Propagated by cuttings. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 320.
Daphne × hybrida Sweet
Genus
Other species in the genus
- Daphne acutiloba Rehd.
- Daphne alpina L.
- Daphne altaica Pall.
- Daphne aurantiaca Diels
- Daphne bholua Buch.-Ham.
- Daphne blagayana Freyer
- Daphne × burkwoodii Turrill
- Daphne caucasica Pall.
- Daphne cneorum L.
- Daphne collina Smith
- Daphne genkwa Sieb. & Zucc.
- Daphne giraldii Nitsche
- Daphne × houtteana Lindl.
- Daphne jezoensis Reg.
- Daphne laureola L.
- Daphne mezereum L.
- Daphne × napolitana Lodd.
- Daphne × neapolitana Lodd.
- Daphne odora Thunb.
- Daphne oleoides Schreb.
- Daphne petraea Leybold
- Daphne pontica L.
- Daphne pseudomezereum A. Gray
- Daphne retusa Hemsl.
- Daphne rodriguezii Texidor
- Daphne sophia Kalenichenko
- Daphne striata Tratt.
- Daphne tangutica Maxim.