Hypericum densiflorum Very Rare The smooth gray bark

The smooth gray bark

since a hard freeze at or after flowering will take the blossoms and the fruit with them

kin to the Chilean monkey puzzle

since look-alike material from the West Indies and tropical America was once folded into the same species and is now kept separate

'Halley's Comet' was selected by the plantsman David Ellis and introduced by the former Magnolia Nursery of Chunchula

Hypericum densiflorum Very Rare The smooth gray barkHypericum densiflorum earns the name densiflorum, densely flowered, in high summer, when the twiggy shrub disappears under rounded clusters of small golden flowers, each one a starburst of fine stamens above five clean yellow petals. Bees work the blooms from July into September, and as the show fades the narrow dark green leaves turn a warm yellow, giving way in winter to reddish, lightly peeling bark on the older stems. The common name reaches back