Daphne

Daphne is a genus of between 50-95 species of deciduous and evergreen shrubs in the plant family Thymelaeaceae, native to Asia, Europe, and north Africa. They are noted for their scented flowers and poisonous berries. The flowers lack petals and have four (rarely five) petaloid sepals, ranging from greenish-yellow to white and bright pink; most of the evergreen species tend to have greenish flowers, while the deciduous species tend to have pink flowers. In many species, flowering is in late winter or very early spring.


Some species
Daphne odora (Winter daphne) is an evergreen shrub, grown for its incredibly fragrant, fleshy, pale-pink, tubular flowers, each with 4 spreading lobes and for its glossy foliage. The plant is native to China and Japan. The plant is fully to frost hardy, requiring full sun to part shade. The plants are found in fertile, slightly acid, peaty, well-drained soils. Plants will not tolerate transplantation as like all daphne, they hate root disturbance. Rarely produces fruits but does produce red berries after flowering in habitat.
Plants are not long lived, senescing within 8 to 10 years.
Daphne odora is propagated by semi-ripe cuttings in summer. It is susceptible to viruses that cause leaf mottling.

Daphne laureola, or Spurge-laurel, is a species of Daphne in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae. Despite the name, this woodland plant is neither a spurge nor a laurel but is one of the two species of Daphne native to Britain - the other being Daphne mezereum both of which have a strong preference for alkaline soils and are most commonly found in limestone areas. However, unlike Mezereon, D. laureola is evergreen with yellowish green flowers borne very early in the Spring and black berries, which are poisonous to humans but not to birds, present from late Summer.

Daphne mezereum is a species of Daphne in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae, native to most of Europe and western Asia, north to northern England and central Scandinavia. In southern Europe it is confined to medium to higher elevations and in the subalpine vegetation zone, but descends to near sea level in northern Europe. It is generally confined to soils derived from limestone. The common name is Mezereon.
It is a deciduous shrub growing to 1.5 m tall. The leaves are soft, 3-8 cm long and 1-2 cm broad, arranged spirally on the stems. The flowers are produced in early spring on the bare stems before the leaves appear. They have a four-lobed pink or light purple (rarely white) perianth 10-15 mm diameter, and are strongly scented. The fruit is a bright red berry 7-12 mm diameter; it is very poisonous for people, though fruit-eating birds like thrushes are immune and eat them, dispersing the seeds in their droppings.

Daphne genkwa Siebold & Zucc. is an evergreen shrub and one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it has the name yuán huā.

Daphne acutiloba
Daphne alpina
Daphne altaica
Daphne angustiloba
Daphne arbuscula
Daphne gnidioides
Daphne gnidium
Daphne gracilis
Daphne grueningiana
Daphne holosericea
Daphne jasminea
Daphne jezoensis
Daphne jinyuensis
Daphne sureil
Daphne tangutica
Daphne tenuiflora
Daphne malyana
Daphne kamtschatica
Daphne kiusiana
Daphne kosaninii
Daphne laciniata
Daphne leishanensis
Daphne limprichtii
Daphne longilobata
Daphne modesta
Daphne mucronata
Daphne myrtilloides
Daphne longituba
Daphne macrantha
Daphne esquirolii
Daphne feddei
Daphne gemmata
Daphne rosmarinifolia
Daphne sericea
Daphne sophia
Daphne striata
Daphne arisanensis
Daphne aurantiaca
Daphne oleoides
Daphne papyracea
Daphne pedunculata
Daphne penicillata
Daphne petraea
Daphne pontica
Daphne pseudomezereum
Daphne purpurascens
Daphne retusa
Daphne rhynchocarpa
Daphne rodriguezii
Daphne emeiensis
Daphne erosiloba
Daphne tripartita
Daphne xichouensis
Daphne yunnanensis
Daphne axillaris
Daphne bholua
Daphne blagayana
Daphne giraldii
Daphne glomerata
Daphne brevituba
Daphne caucasica
Daphne championii
Daphne cneorum
Daphne depauperata

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