Pernettya Flowering Shrub
Pernettya Flowering Shrub
Pernettya Muronata Flowering Shrub
Prickly Heath. Magellan, 1828. This is a dwarf-growing, wiry shrub, with narrow, stiff leaves, and bears an abundance of white, bell-shaped flowers. It is an excellent wind screen, and may be used to advantage on the exposed side of rockwork or flower beds, or as an ornamental shrub by the pond or lake side.
The small dark-green leaves, the tiny white flowers, and great abundance of deep purple berries in winter, are all points that are in favour of the shrub for extended cultivation. The pretty, pinky shoots, too, help to make the plant attractive even in mid-winter. Propagation by layers or seed is readily brought about.
To grow this shrub to perfection, peaty soil or decayed vegetable matter will be found most suitable. There is a narrow-leaved form named Pernettya mucronata angustifolia, and another on which the name of Pernettya mucronata speciosa has been bestowed.
There are many beautiful-berried forms of the Pernettya, but as their
flowers are small can hardly be included in our list.
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