@Uff Looks like it's meaning is complicated. Golden is one word used. I grow Erodium chrysanthum flowers creamy yellow I have seen it referred to as E chrysanthus too.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Oh my that's lovely, even the buds are special. Why does it have chrysantha in the name do you know please @Silver surfer ?
Plant names give so may clues.
Chyrsantha...in Latin means having golden flowers. While quadrifolia would mean a plant with 4 leaves.eg Paris quadrifolia. Quad =4. Folia = leaves.
Others are named after a person.eg Watsonia.
Quote www...."The genus Watsonia was named for Sir William Watson, a British scientist who helped introduce the Linnaean system of plant classification to the UK,"
Incidentally Edgeworthia is a bit like hazel.... Corylus avellana.
Hazel catkins form on the shrub in the summer. My first pic below was taken on 31st August, in Scotland. But because there are masses of leaves they go mostly unnoticed. In spring as the weather warms they get longer until they are full of pollen and golden. Now without leaves everyone can see them dancing in the breeze.
Edgeworthia flower buds do the same . They sit doing nothing, hanging down, unnoticed until the spring when they very gently open. The flowers on the outside are the first to open. Working towards the centre until all are fully open...see my flickr pics in post above.
I really wish I could still grow all these fab plants here...but too cold....garden now tiny.
Today I spotted my first clump of wild snowdrops growing on a roadside bank, under a lambs tails hazel bush thick with catkins whilst driving cross country. It really lifted my spirits. We have lots of hazel bushes and I always love seeing the tails shaking in the wind.
I have a feeling the furry surface of an Edgeworthia plant might not survive the very wet climate down here. Not seeing it growing locally anywhere is probably a good indication it does not enjoy living in Cornwall.
I've seen Edgworthia flowering at Kew, but their snowdrops were out in December. Mine are just starting. I had some young plants of the orange one and red dragon but they didn't survive the first winter here in the midlands. Lonicera purpusii is doing well though. very sweetly scented and carries well.
Yes Fidgetbones, My Lonicera fragrantissima is lovely at the moment. Thick with flowers, I walk through a cloud of scent each time I walk past it. My Sarcocca is just going over, it is only a baby so I have had it in the house while it was in flower, I have just moved it back outdoors. I also have a myrtle but it isn't big enough to flower yet. Myrtle seems to grow really well down here, I have seen qite a few really big trees of it in full flower. A lovely perfume. My daughter has one in her garden. It is around 20ft tall and looks quite venerable.
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Why does it have chrysantha in the name do you know please @Silver surfer ?
Chyrsantha...in Latin means having golden flowers.
While quadrifolia would mean a plant with 4 leaves.eg Paris quadrifolia.
Quad =4. Folia = leaves.
Others are named after a person.eg Watsonia.
Quote www...."The genus Watsonia was named for Sir William Watson, a British scientist who helped introduce the Linnaean system of plant classification to the UK,"
etc etc.
Hazel catkins form on the shrub in the summer.
My first pic below was taken on 31st August, in Scotland.
But because there are masses of leaves they go mostly unnoticed.
In spring as the weather warms they get longer until they are full of pollen and golden.
Now without leaves everyone can see them dancing in the breeze.
Edgeworthia flower buds do the same .
They sit doing nothing, hanging down, unnoticed until the spring when they very gently open.
The flowers on the outside are the first to open.
Working towards the centre until all are fully open...see my flickr pics in post above.
I really wish I could still grow all these fab plants here...but too cold....garden now tiny.
I also have C avellana contorta. There is a red leaved form of of this too which I would love to grow but like you @Siversurfer not enough space.
I have a feeling the furry surface of an Edgeworthia plant might not survive the very wet climate down here. Not seeing it growing locally anywhere is probably a good indication it does not enjoy living in Cornwall.
My Lonicera fragrantissima is lovely at the moment. Thick with flowers, I walk through a cloud of scent each time I walk past it. My Sarcocca is just going over, it is only a baby so I have had it in the house while it was in flower, I have just moved it back outdoors. I also have a myrtle but it isn't big enough to flower yet. Myrtle seems to grow really well down here, I have seen qite a few really big trees of it in full flower. A lovely perfume. My daughter has one in her garden. It is
around 20ft tall and looks quite venerable.