Daphne petraea Leybold (1853)

endemic to Lake Garda and Lake Idro region, Italy / upright forms can reach 0,3 m height - prostrate forms only 0,1 m high and often much wider / growing in crevices of calcareous rocks / sunny places but not too hot / evergreen / scented / hardy with protection / seed very small hidden within the dried calyx tube

white flowering selection - ‘Tremalzo’ / intensive red flowering selections are ‘Idro’ from H. Bauer and ‘Corna Blacca’ / Daphne petraea ‘Corna Blacca’ was found 1995 by Geert Borgonje - he sent cuttings to Blackthorne Nursery - R. White named this plant / other selections are Grandiflora, Michele, Persebee, Punchinello, Cima Tombea, Flamingo, Garnet, Lydora, Plena, ‘The Beacon’, Vanguard, and more

common German name for Daphne petraea is - Felsen-Seidelbast

Hybrids with Daphne petraea are:

Daphne x adamantina [= D. x suendermannii], Daphne x ambrosiaca, Daphne x beata, Daphne x fortunata, Daphne x hendersonii,

Daphne x jintyae [= D. x pudica], Daphne x kazbali [= D. x rollsdorfii], Daphne x mauerbachii, Daphne x mcbeathii,

Daphne x reichsteinii, Daphne x thauma, Daphne x whiteorum, Daphne x ‘Kelsey Ann’ = (Daphne velenovskyi x Daphne petraea ‘Grandiflora’)

and three parent hybrids:

Daphne x ‘Colinton Crown’ = Daphne petraea x Daphne eschmannii, and Daphne x ‘Bonnie Glen’ = Daphne petraea x Daphne x hendersonii ‘Rosebud’, both were made by Dr. Cyril Lafong

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