Alexandra Park Interactive Tree Walk

Tree 7: Eucryphia

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Further along on the our right we can see two Eucryphias (both Eucryphia x nymansensis 'Nymansay') planted close together, regarded as the finest in East Sussex.  These slender evergreen trees with glossy green toothed leaves are not particularly obvious until August when they become wreathed in deliciously fragrant white poppy-like flowers.  This particular Eucryphia is of Chilean ancestry, being a hybrid which arose from two species native to Chile which were growing in Nymans Garden near Haywards Heath in West Sussex.

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