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Larix decidua f. adenocarpa (Borb.) Fitsch. |
frd: 3-4cm
- larger cones
frt: cones soft pubescent, closed at maturity
or, geo: Tirol (Tyrol), first found by Horbas 1904.
Larix decidua f. alba ('Alba') |
fc:
flowers and young cones greenish-white
ns: denOuden and Boom list it as a cultivar but state it occurs
"through the whole area"
ns: and is not in cultivation. This clearly suggests the rank of
botanical form.
geo: known from Switzerland and Austria since before 1855
Larix decidua 'Autumn Gold Weeping' |
ha:
weeping
lc: distinctly golden yellow
Larix decidua 'Cervicornis' |
ha:
smaller, shrub-like, branches said to be "antler-like"
or: found at Mt. Semmeing, Steiermark, Austria 1909
in: Dieck Nur, Germany
Larix decidua 'Cherry Valley' |
ha:
globose, dwarf, 6 in. growth a year
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix decidua 'Compacta' |
ha:
denser, compact, conical, more highly branched. Branches can be
brittle
or: A. Gorrie, Yorkshire, England c. 1830
Larix decidua 'Conica' |
ha:
conical to pyramidal, lower limbs horizontal, branches curving
upward
or: Bonamy Brothers Nursery, France before 1868
Larix decidua 'Corley' |
ha: dwarf,
globose, lacking a central leader
or: R.F. Corley, High Wycombe, Bucks. England from witches broom
before 1971
in: Hillier Nurseries before 1971
Larix decidua 'Croxby Broom' |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua 'Curvifolia' |
lw, ll:
shorter, narrower needles
lt: irregularly curved
or: Seneclauze Nur. , France found before 1868
Larix decidua 'Cyclone Ridge No. 1' |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua 'Cyclone Ridge No. 2' |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua 'Fastigiata' |
ha:
narrowly columnar to fastigiate, said to resemble a coniferous
Lombardy poplar.
ha: branches are shorter and very erect.
or: Seneclauze Nur., France before 1868
Larix decidua 'Glauca' |
lc: new growth more glaucous, blue-green becoming gray-green
Larix decidua 'Gossard Broom' |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua 'Cyclone Ridge' |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua 'Hommel Broom' |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua 'Horstmann Recured' |
ht: 1m
tall
ha: semi-weeping, diffuse, contorted
lc: light green
or: Horstmann
Larix decidua 'Hubbard No. 1' |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua 'Hubbard No. 2' |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua 'Kellermannii' |
ha: dwarf,
irregular, branchlets shorter and thicker, needles more densely
borne.
or: Europe c. 1852
Larix decidua 'Lanarck' |
ha: dwarf,
globose, lower, sometimes spreading
lc: green
or: Randy Dyskra found
ns: a clone of L. sibirica has the same cultivar name (see below)
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix decidua 'Lanark No. 2' |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua 'Lanarck Prostrate' |
ns: a listed name from the US
Larix decidua 'Laxa' |
ha:
vigorous, horizontal to semi-pendulous, less dense, very lax
overall
lc: dark green or dark blue-green
Larix decidua 'Linwood No. 1' |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua 'Little Bogle' |
ha: dwarf,
irregularly weeping
lc: blue-green
afc: yellow
so: Roslyn Nursery
Larix decidua 'Lombarts' |
ha:
slightly arching
ll: to 4cm long (near apices)
lw: narrower than species typical (near branchlet bases)
lt: thinner than species typical
lc: blue-green, slightly more glaucous
or: Pierre Lombarts Nursery, Zundert, Netherlands from seed 1929.
inL Lombarts Nursery 1935
Larix decidua 'Multicaulis' |
ha:
conical, narrower, dense, branches erect
or: Schroder, Moscau before 1894
Larix decidua 'Oberforster Karsten' |
ns: a listed name from Germany.
Larix decidua 'Paula' |
lc:
distinctly glaucous blue
ls: needles are notably 'ascending'
ll: 1.5-2.0 in.
or: found in Hamden CT in 1962
in: by Vincent Bonaminio then of Dept. Hort. Sci. at NC State
Univ. and
in: Dr. Edwin D. Carpenter of Univ. of CT Storrs but apparently
not
in: in the nursery trade
li: Hebb, R. 1972. Plant registrations. Arnoldia 32: 279.
Larix decidua Pendula Group |
ha:
weeping, usually tall, upright, and irregular. Branches often
arch sharply and
ha: from multiple leaders.
or, ns: the cultivar group is appropriate as the trade holds
various clones of different
or, ns: origins and shapes. They have come from both the wild and
garden origin.
or, ns: Krussman reports it has been found int eh wild since 1836
Larix decidua 'Pendulina' |
ha:
broadly upright, having multiple trunks from the base
or: Lengingrad Bot. Garden from a very large, old plant
Larix decidua 'Puli' ('Pullii', 'Poulii') |
ha:
weeping
ns: there are several spellings. Anything in Latin form is
invalid. 'Puli' seems most common and
ns: would be allowed if a complete proper name.
Larix decidua 'Pyramidalis' |
ha:
narrowly pyramidal, densely branched
or: Ellwanger & Barry Nursery, Rochester NY before 1932
ns: Krussman says it may be 'Fastigiata'. It is likely similar to
literatures suggests one
ns: is of European origin and this one from North America.
Larix decidua 'Repens' |
ha: lower
limbs often extended, spreading on the ground. It is not entirely
repandent.
or: Hort. Society Garden, Longdon c. 1825
Larix decidua 'Route Seven' |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua f. rubra (West.) Henk. & Hochst. |
frc, fc: flowers and cones red or reddish
Larix gmelinii 'Rumberg Park' |
ha: dwarf,
forming a flat bun-shaped plant
lc: very bright green
source, photo: Aesthetic Gardens
Larix decidua 'Saybrook Sleeper' ('Saybrook No. 2) |
ns: a listed name for a witches broom clone.
Larix decidua 'Steuben' |
so: Stanley & Sons Nursery (online catalog 2002), without description
Larix decidua 'Tortuosa' |
ha: branches somewhat contorted, twisted.
Larix decidua 'Viminalis' |
ha: most
branchlets perpendicularly weeping, elongated
or: Dr. J. Valchkenier Suringar, De Dorskamp Estate, Wageningen,
Netherlands c. 1925
or: A similar mutation has been found in W. Germany and another
in Switzerland.
Larix decidua 'Virgata' |
ha:
branchles elongated, less branched, snake-like, somewhat twisted
or: denOuden & Boom report two separate origins. It is likely
the same mutation.
Larix decidua 'Whorled Peace' |
so: Stanley & Sons Nursery (online catalog 2002), without description
Larix x eurolepis = Larix x henryana |
Larix gmelinii 'Tharandt' |
ns: a listed name from Europe.
Larix x henryana (Larix x eurolepis) |
ns: this
correct name should be used in collections and catalogs. The
ns: case made by Nelson is most convincing and well studied.
li: Nelson, E.C. 1980. What is the correct name for the Dunkeld
larch
li: (Larix decidua x L. leptolepis). Irish For. 37(2): 112-118.
Larix x henryana 'Blue Weeping' |
ha:
weeping
lc: blue-green
Larix x henryana 'Gail' |
ll:
miniature, dwarf, globose, 1 inch growth a year
lc: green
ll: much shorter than hybrid species typical
ns: a plant of this name is referred to L. x marschlinsii and is
probably the same clone.
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix x henryana 'Varied Directions' |
ha: limbs
horizontal, erect, and drooping in no particular form. Some
ha: shoots slightly contorted. Uusually grafted on an understock
for
ha: effect. Overall it seems to be a thick-branched, irregular weeper or mound
with
ha: some very independant limbs.
source: Stanley and Sons
Larix kaempferi 'Aureavariegata' |
lc:
irregularly mottled yellow, quite unevenly and not so showy.
or: B.W. Dirken Nursery, Oudenbosch, Netherlands before 1899
so: denOuden & Boom report it was no longer cultivated in
1965.
Larix kaempferi 'Bambino' |
ns: a listed name from Europe, presumbly for a dwarf clone.
Larix kaempferi 'Bingman' |
ns: a listed name from Europe.
Larix kaempferi 'Blue Haze' |
lc:
distinctly blue to blue-green
or: Hillier & Son Nurseries, England
Larix kaempferi 'Blue Rabbit' |
ha:
upright, columnar to conical
lc: more glaucous, a bluer-green or rich blue
or: Konijn Nurseries, Boskoop,Holland c. 1960
source: Stanley and Sons
Larix kaempferi 'Blue Rabbit Weeping' |
ha:
weeping, dense, with occasional tips upcurving and sticking out
lc: blue-green much like 'Blue Rabbit'
Larix kaempferi 'Cruwys Morchard' |
ha: dwarf,
columnar, branches very erect
ll: 20mm
lc: blue-green
or: Gordon Haddow, Kenwitch Nurseires, England as witches broom
found near Tiverton
or: Devon, England.
Larix kaempferi 'Cupido' |
ha:
compact, saucer-shaped
lc: blue-green
Larix kaempferi 'Dervaes' ('Pendula Dervaes') |
ha: main
limbs horizontal, tips and laters distinctly weeping, forming
broad mounds
lc: bright "fresh green"
or: C. deConinck-Dervaes Nursery, Maldeghem, Belgium 1946
Larix kaempferi 'Diane' ('Diana')
click
image to enlarge |
ha: very
contorted, only slightly slower than species typical.
Pretzel-like in some gardens.
gr: 6-12 in. per year
lc: rich intense green
ls: needles also sometimes twisted
st: pinkish, showy
afc: golden orange shades
lu: excellent in the winter garden for its unusual form
or: J. Bohlje, Westerstede as found tree
ns: Humphrey Welch says the originator named it from the Freek
goddess of hunting
ns: thus the popular name of 'Diana' is not strictly correct.
source: Stanley and Sons
source: Collector's Nursery
Larix kaempferi ' Fritsche' |
ha: dwarf
or: Czech. Republic as witches broom
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix kaempferi 'Ganghoferi' |
ha:
conical to pyramidal, compact, dense, branchets very erect, often
irregular
or: Forestry Garden, Diedorf, Germany before 1903
Larix kaempferi 'Gray Pearl' |
ns: a listed name from Europe, presumably with greyish foliage
Larix kaempferi 'Havebeck' |
ha: dwarf,
globose
lc: blue-green
or: Horstmann 1983 as witches broom
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix kaempferi 'Herynek' |
ha: dwarf,
flat bun-shaped, 4 inches growth a year
or: witches broom
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix kaempferi 'Hobbit' |
ns: a listed name from Europe, presumably for a dwarf clone.
Larix kaempferi 'Inversa' |
ha:
branches hanging down along the trunk, an extreme or inverted
type weeper
ll: 40-45mm - species typical is 20-35mm - this is longer
lw: 1.5mm
la: more long pointed
or: Lombarts Nursery, Netherlands 1920
in: Lombarts Nursery 1932
Larix kaempferi 'Jacobsen's Pyramid' |
ha:
pyramidal, vigorous, contorted branches
or: G.D. Bohlje, Oldenberg, Germany 1974
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix kaempferi 'Kenwith' |
ha: dwarf,
globose, dense, branchlets distinctly erect with tips uniformly
erect.
buds: dark brown, globose, often clustered with leaves at the
apices.
ll: 10mm - shorter
or: Kenwith Nursery, England
Larix kaempferi 'Little Blue Star' |
ha: dwarf, blue
Larix kaempferi 'Lombarts' |
ha:
branches spreading, branches horizontal to drooping
ll: 25mm
or: Lombarts Nursery, Netherlands 1920
in: Lombarts Nursery 1955
id: Krussman considers it a synonym of 'Inversa' which is from
the same nursery. However
id: denOuden and Boom report the needle lengths are different.
Larix kaempferi 'Minor' ('Dumosa') |
ha:
globose, compact, branches erect
st: often showy bright red
lc: grey-green
or: Europe before 1862. Welch stattes this name may have been
used for various
or: dwarf seedlings over the years.
Larix kaempferi 'Nana' provisional name |
ha: dense,
globose, dwarf, 5cm a year growth rate
ll: 8-10mm - shorter
or: Wildenloh National Forest, Germany as witches broom 1976
found by H. Neumann
in: Jeddeloh Nursery, Germany
ns: this obviously requires a new name giving the post-1959
origin. Welch reports the
ns: validly to be "uncertain" but like us cannot find
any published descriptions before
ns: the 1970's.
Larix kaempferi 'Obi Wan' (10/02) |
ha:
vigorous, upright, weeping lateral limbs
so, or: Arrowhead Alpines (online catalog
2002), own introduction
Larix kaempferi 'Pendula' |
ha:
weeping
lc: blue-green, more glaucous than some selections. Usually the new growth is
bluish but it becomes greener quickly.
or: Hesse Nurseries, Weener, German before 1896
Larix kaempferi 'Pesek' |
ha: dwarf
or: Czech Republic as witches broom
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix kaempferi 'Prostrata' |
ha: dwarf,
prostrate, spreading on the ground
or: Kneiff Estate, Nordhausen, Germany found among seedlings
before 1909
Larix kaempferi 'Pyramidalis Argentea' |
ha:
pyramidal, branches curving upward more than nornal
lc: silvery-blue, much more glaucous
or: Ujardowski Parkat, Warsaw, Poland from a notable tree there
before 1952.
Larix kaempferi 'Soudana' |
or: Czech
Republic as witches broom
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix kaempferi 'Stiff Weeping' |
ht: 1m
ha: weeping, quite rigidly so compared to other clones
lc: blue-green
Larix kaempferi 'Swallow Flats' |
ns: a listed name from Europe.
Larix kaempferi 'Tucek' |
ha: low
mound, 4 inches growth a year
lc: light green
ll: 0.5 in. - shorter
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix kaempferi 'Vaerkou' |
so: Stanley & Sons Nursery (online catalog 2002), without description
Larix kaempferi 'Varley' |
ha: dwarf,
about half the rate of 'Nana' in the UK trade.
ll: longer than 'Nana'
or: M.J. Varley from witches broom before 1979
in: Wandyke Nursery, England
Larix kaempferi 'Wehlen' |
ha: dwarf,
spreading, irregular, dense, similar to 'Wolterdingen' overall
or: G. Horstmann found witches broom 1972
Larix kaempferi 'Whelen' = 'Wehlen'? |
so: Stanley & Sons Nursery (online catalog 2002), without description
Larix kaempferi 'Wolderdingen' |
ht: 50cm
tall x 70cm wide (10 years)
ha: dwarf, irregular, wider than tall
buds: distinctly conical (terminal) and globose (lateral)
lc: blue-green
lt: slightly twisted
ll: 35mm
afc: butter yellow
or: G. Horstmann, Germany found c. 1970
source, photo: Collector's Nursery
Larix kaempferi 'Yanus Olieslagers' |
ns: a listed name from Europe.
Larix laricina 'Arethusa Bog' |
ha: dwarf,
bun-shaped
lc: sea green, a bright shade
Larix laricina 'Aurea' |
lc: yellow
new growth, later light green.
or: Seneclauze Nursery, France 1866 as seedling
so: denOuden & Boom report in 1965 that is was no longer
cultivated.
Larix laricina 'Bear Swamp' |
ns: a listed name from Europe.
Larix laricina 'Blue Sparkler' |
ht: 3m
tall x 1m wide - young plants reach 5 feet quickly
ha: dense, low growing at first, semi-dwarf, pyramidal with age,
lc: blue green
or: Sidney Waxman of Univ. CT
so: Roslyn Nursery
Larix laricina 'Craftbury Flats' |
ha: dwarf,
globose
lc: green
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix laricina 'Edelweiss' |
or: Joe
Braeu, Diluth, MN USA as witches broom
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix laricina 'Girard's Dwarf' ('Girard's Nana') |
ha:
compact, dwarf
or: Girard Nurseries OH USA, usually listed under the invalid
Latin name.
Larix laricina 'Glauca' |
lc: steel
blue, more glaucous
or: Stockholm Bot. Gard. before 1907
Larix laricina 'Hartwig Pine' |
ns: a listed name from Europe.
Larix laricina 'Little Blue Ball' |
ht: 1.2m
ha: compact, globose
lc: blue
Larix laricina f. lutea Jaures & deFerre |
fc:
flowers yellow
or: found near Clearwater Co. MN USA
Larix laricina 'Newport #7' |
ns:
provisional testing name
or: seedling of witches broom
lc: blue
ha: globose and smaller than 'Newport #9'
or: Sidney Waxman, Univ. Connecticut as witches broom
li: Iseli Nursery wholesale catalog 1988: 22
source: Stanley and Sons
Larix laricina 'Newport #9' |
or: witches broom seedling from Dr. Sidney Waxman of the Univ. of CT
Larix laricina 'Newport Beauty' |
ns:
probably the same as one of the forenamed clones
ha: dwarf and globose, mounded with age
ht: 2-3 ft.
lc: powder blue
afc: tan
lu: small enough for rock gardens
source: Stanley and Sons
Larix laricina f. parvistrobus (Jaures & deFerre) denOuden & Boom |
ll: 1-2mm
long per denOuden & Boom (this seems quite impossible and may
be a typo)
frd: cones to 9mm long and 8mm wide- smaller
frc: blackish at maturity
frt: 12-13 cones scales - f. decidua (typical) has 15-20 scales
or: known from Crawford County PA USA
Larix laricina 'Prospect Harbor' |
ha:
irregular pyramidal
lc: blue green to aqua
ns: strain of witches broom seedlings - 'no two are alike'
so: Twombly Nur. 203-261-2133
Larix laricina 'Stubby' |
ha: dense,
witches broom product
ht: 2 ft. x 2 ft. in many years
lc: blue-green
afc: tan
or: Richard Jaynes found as witches broom along Mass. Turnpike
so: Roslyn Nursery
source: Collector's Nursery
Larix leptolepis = K. kaempferi |
Larix x marschlinsii (L. kaempferi x L. sibirica) |
Larix x marschlinsii 'Domino' |
ns: a listed name from Europe.
Larix x marschlinsii 'Gail' |
ha:
miniature, dwarf, globose, 1 inch growth per year
ll: smaller than hybrid species typical
Larix x marschlinsii 'Julie' |
ns: a listed name from Europe.
Larix occidentalis 'Bollinger' |
ha:
semi-dwarf, 4 in. growth a year
or: Jerry Morris as witches broom
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix occidentalis 'Four Shot' |
ha: dwarf,
shorter internodes
or: Jerry Morris as witches broom
ns: it is named because it took 4 shotgun blasts to get it down!
so: Stanley & Sons
Nursery (online catalog 2002)
Larix x pendula (L. decidua x L. laricina) 'Contorta' |
ha: both
young and older branches contorted, twisted
or: Kornickie Arboretum, Poland 1931
Larix x pendula 'Pendula' |
ha: more
pendulous than parent L. decidua but sometimes only in the main
branches.
ha: other plants are reported to be umbrella-shaped and more
weeping, branches
ha: often twisted. We are reserving this name for the distinctly
pendulous clone.
st: new stems pinkish - unlike parent L. decidua
ns: this is the typical clone or form of it in gardens
Larix x pendula 'Repens' |
ha:
horizontal to low-spreading
or: England before 1948, perhaps from a notable plant in Henham,
Cambridge.
Larix russica 'Rasputin' (2/01) |
ht: 75 ft.
(species)
lc: purple new growth becoming green with maturity
or: Collectors Nursery before 2001
source: Collector's Nursery
Larix sibirica 'Fastigiata' |
ha: columnar to fastigiate
Larix sibirica 'Glauca' |
lc: blue-green, more glaucous
Larix sibirica 'Lanarck' |
ha:
globose
ht: 4 ft. tall in 10 years
gr: 6 in. per year
lc: green
id: if this is not the same as L. decidua 'Lanarck' one of them
must be renamed
source, photo: Aesthetic Gardens (online catalog
2002)
Larix sibirica f. longifolia Schelle |
ll: longer than species typical which is about 20-35mm
Larix sibirica 'Pendula' |
ha: weeping
Larix sibirica f. robusta Schelle |
ha: more robust, that is vigorous and strong
Larix sibirica f. tittelbachii Schroeder ex Schelle |
frc: cones white when immature - as opposed to the typical light green or reddish-green