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- Wisteria × formosa
Wisteria × formosa
beautiful wisteria
Vigorous, deciduous, twining climber about 9m in height or more with green leaves composed of up to 15 leaflets. Highly scented, pea-like, pale to violet-blue flowers are produced on short trusses about 25cm long, in late spring and early summer, and may be followed by bean-like, velvety pale green seed pods 15cm long
- Wisteria brachybotrys
Wisteria brachybotrys
silky wisteria
a vigorous, deciduous climber twining anticlockwise and reaching a height and spread of 9m or more. The leaves comprise 9-13 oval to ovate, downy leaflets. Slightly fragrant, violet-blue to white flowers up to 3cm long are borne in racemes 10-15cm long and followed by velvety seedpods
- Wisteria frutescens 'Nivea'
Wisteria frutescens 'Nivea'
American wisteria 'Nivea'
A vigorous twining climber about 6-8m or more tall, with smooth, shiny leaves composed of leaflets and lightly scented, short, dense flower racemes to 9.5cm long of pure white flowers blotched yellow, produced in summer, followed by shiny brown seed heads
- Wisteria floribunda 'Issai Perfect'
Wisteria floribunda 'Issai Perfect'
Japanese wisteria 'Issai Perfect'
'Issai Perfect' is a clockwise-twining, woody climber with leaves made up of up to 15 leaflets. Very fragrant flowers in shadesof soft lilac-blue with slightly darker edges and aging to whiteare borne in summer on racemes up to 45cm long.
- Wisteria frutescens 'Longwood Purple'
Wisteria frutescens 'Longwood Purple'
American wisteria 'Longwood Purple'
A vigorous twining climber about 6-8m or more tall, with smooth, shiny dark green leaves composed of leaflets, and lightly musk-scented, short, dense flower racemes, composed of violet flower petals, with white centres and greenish-yellow eyes, produced late in summer, followed by shiny brown seed heads
- Wisteria floribunda 'Nana Richin's Purple'
Wisteria floribunda 'Nana Richin's Purple'
Japanese wisteria 'Nana Richin's Purple'
'Nana Richin's Purple' is a deciduous, twining, slow-growing climber with glossy foliage divided into lance-shaped leaflets. A profusion of fragrant lavender-purple flowers are borne in long racemes from late spring into early summer
- Wisteria sinensis 'Amethyst'
Wisteria sinensis 'Amethyst'
Chinese wisteria 'Amethyst'
An anticlockwise-twining cultivar. The flowers are produced in late spring or early summer, before the leaves open, and are strongly fragrant, reddish- violet with a yellow blotch inside. Velvety green bean-like seed pods follow. The leaves have around 11 leaflets, and emerge deep bronze
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