Re: Obscurer and Obscurer

My 1977 RSH dictionary tells the following: Kageneckia is a genus of 3 or 4 species, of which oblonga is the only one in cultivation. It needs cool greenhouse treatment & a compost of loam, peat & sand.
 
Evergreen shrub or small tree, 10 - 30ft, shoots and l. glabrous. leaves alternate, oval-lanceolate to obovate, 1 - 2 1/2" long, 1/2 - 1" wide. margins minutely, evenly, sharply toothed, teeth gland-tipped. flowers 1-sexual, pure white 3/4" wide in axillary corymbs of 6-9 petals, 5 roundish; males with 16-20 stamens; carpels of the female 5. Chile 1830. (named in honour of Frederick de Kageneck, an ambassador from Holland to Spain)
 
(I'm a fan of many of the shrubs in Rosaceae family & find their foliage & bark exquisite - stephanandra tanakae, rubus linneatus & physocarpus opulifolious at the top of my list, will be interesting to hear further about the charms of this evergreen one.)
 
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From: t*@BTinternet.com
To: m*@ucdavis.edu
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 9:07 PM
Subject: Obscurer and Obscurer

Can anyone help with yet another of my S. American mysteries?
 
I've got a flourishing batch of seedlings of Kageneckia oblonga, courtesy of a kind if slightly sadistic friend who gave me the seed - knowing I'd be unable to resist trying them and knowing, too, that I'd be equally irritated by not knowing what 'they' were.
 
Tropicos tells me it's a member of Rosaceae, a big shrub or small tree, their specimen being collected near Comquimbe in Chile, from an east-facing fog-pocket 450m up (which sounds promising in relation to its survival chances on the Solway Coast in NW England...).
 
But it doesn't tell me anything significant about the plant's appearance or (if any) attractions.
 
Hence my plea. Anyone?
 
Tim L
 
 
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