Rare Plants List

Evergreen leathery leaves

Excellent for coastal areas. Sticky buds and white flowers spotted purple

A quick growing myrtle-like plant with similar foliage and flowers

(formerly LITSEA glauca) - very attractive silky, rusty-brown, new growth which becomes dark green above and whitish below. Highly aromatic when crushed

Aromatic leaves and small green flowers. Dioecious

Racemes of white flowers and superb crimson and yellow autumn colouring

White daisy flowers. Silver felted shoots and silver-backed green leaves

A graceful cascading mound of a tree with large corymbs of white flowers. Wonderful autumn colour falls to leave clusters of orange-red fruits. An exceptional species but one which is still rare and not widely grown

White flowers followed by red fruits. Good autumn colour

A small slowish growing tree from New Zealand with flattened green leaf-like stems call cladodes arranged pinnately in attractive fronds. The emerging cladodes are an attractive reddish-brown. Perfectly hardy and unusual

A rare slow growing and erect Chilean tree which is perfectly hardy in the UK. Enjoys growing on a damp or boggy soil

(formerly daphnephylloides) - huge dark green leaves of up to 10 ins. Scented cream flowers and small red fruit. Hardy if sheltered

Downy young stems. Small, maroon-crimson flowers

(betulinus) - a rare but graceful slender tree in maturity with light green leaves and panicles of white flowers during May. Tender except in the southwest

Narrow, slightly toothed leaves. Small white flowers in late summer

South African species which has proved just as hardy as P. salignus in the last 3 winters. Extremely long and slightly curved dark green leaves. A compact growing small tree

Serrated leaves and yellow-green flowers

Flowers resemble a pin-cushion in shape when open, with a red-pink globular centre and white pins radiating out

Brilliant red flowers

White flowers

a large vigorous evergreen shrub from Australia which grows up to 3 metres. Deep green serrated leaves complement spectacular large red domed flowers. Has survived -6oC in Cornwall but needs protection from strong winds and severe frosts

Yew-like leaves with two white bands on the undersides and white berries on female plants

Leaf margined heavily divided. Brilliant red or yellow autumn colour

A magnificent foliage plant with pinkish new growth and glossy dark green leaves.

Large ovate broadly lobed leaves make this species readily identifiable

Long narrow oval leaves. Rich autumn colours

Shrubby or round-headed tree. Stout, reddish shoots

A hardy Mexican oak with attractive downy reddish new growth maturing to a bullate glossy green

One of the most attractive and unusual of oak species with broad leathery leaves, spiny at the margins

Vivid red autumn colour