Garrya elliptica - Silk tassel bush
Location: Dunham Massey National Trust/ Manchester. G. elliptica is an evergreen shrub that can reach a height and spread of 3-4m. It favours to grow in full sun/partial shade and in well drained soils.
It's flowers are produced in late Winter/ early Spring in the form of long white pendulous catkins (up to 20cm in length).
They are made up of many individual white flowers with brown stems and fine silvery-silky hairs.
The leaves are dark green, hard and leathery. They are oval shaped and have wavy margins. This specimen is suffering from leaf spot disease it is a pathogen that is only showing symptoms in the leaves.
The bark is rough, grey and riddled with pores.
A younger stem has a dark clay colour.
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