The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Phormium (This genus now embraces three)

Phrynium
Phrynium

This genus now embraces three species. To the species and varieties described on pp. 105-6, Vol. III., the following should now be added: P. Hookeri (Hooker's). fl. on slender pedicels; sepals orange, linear-lanceolate, acute; petals green, linear-oblong, rounded and recurved at apex; filaments blood-red; scape inclined. July. l. ensiform, flaccid, recurved, torn at apex. h. 5ft. New Zealand. Hardy in the South-west of Britain. (B. M. 6973.) P. tenax nigro-limbatum (black-bordered). l. glaucous-green, erect, rather broad, margined blackish-purple; the points split, both sides of each of the divided portions having the blackish-purple margin.

Phyllocactus
Phyllocactus
Phyllocactus
Phyllocactus

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