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Correa lawrenceana 'Eiffel Tower' (Mountain Correa) Upright evergreen shrub to 8 feet tall by 2 feet wide with dark narrow oval green leaves with reddish stems and in winter and spring, and also sporadically at other times throughout the year, appear the pale greenish yellow tubular flowers that hand downwards.
Plant in part sun to full shade in a well-drained soil. Irrigate regularly to occasionally. Hardy to mid 20°F. This is an unusual vertical accent plant for the shade garden that is more notable for its foliage than flowers though when in bloom it is attractive to nectar feeding birds.
Correa lawrenceana is found growing naturally in rainforest and sclerophyll forests in Australia in the states of Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland. The name for the genus honors Jose Francisco Correia de Serra (1750–1823), a Portuguese abbot and naturalist. This species was first described in 1834 by English botanist William Jackson Hooker who gave it the name Correa lawrenciana to honor the Australian botanist Robert William Lawrence (1807-1833) who, with the South African botanist Ronald Gunn, first collected the plant. The spelling of the name was standardized to Correa lawrenceana under the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature in 1998. This plant was in the collection of the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum as Correa lawrenceana 1994.610 and came to them from Kuranga Native Plant Nursery in 1994. It was a University of California Santa Cruz Koala Blooms Australian Plant Introduction for 2014. They gave it the cultivar name 'Eiffel Tower' We grew this interesting plant from 2014 to 2016.
The information displayed on this page about Correa lawrenceana 'Eiffel Tower' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.
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