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22nd June 2009, Gait Barrows, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
At up to a metre tall it is shorter than Stinking Tutsan, but here sheltering in a gryke and unlikely to get much taller. |
22nd June 2009, Gait Barrows, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
A branched under-shrub or shrub. Leaves redden from mid-green when under stress, for example from being exposed to strong sunlight day after day. |
22nd June 2009, Gait Barrows, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
At between 1.5 to 2.5cm across the flowers much smaller than those of Stinking Tutsan or Tall Tutsan. Sepals (behind flower and berry) are shorter than petals. |
22nd June 2009, Gait Barrows, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
With five stunted petals between 1.5 to 2.5 cm across and a multitude of stamens (which are about as long as the petals), which are about as long as the petals, bearing cream-coloured pollen. Ovary in centre, greenish at first, turning yellow as here before turning into an orange then red berry. |
22nd June 2009, Gait Barrows, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Un-like those of Tall Tutsanor Stinking Tutsan, the berries are round. Behind them are five sepals, the petals having long since dropped off. |
22nd June 2009, Gait Barrows, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
22nd June 2009, Gait Barrows, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
22nd June 2009, Gait Barrows, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
A yellow berry and an orange berry. |
22nd June 2009, Gait Barrows, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Ripe berries are red, with five sepals behind. There are only 3 styles (not 5) on Hypericum androsaemum [=Tutsan] (and on several other Tutsans). The styles are about half as long as the ovary. |
22nd June 2009, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
Normal colour of leaves when plant not under stress. Stems often reddish even when not under duress. |
22nd June 2009, Silverdale, Lancs. | Photo: © RWD |
The sepals start off green (one left in centre) but notice the green-tipped one turning brown, red then purple (left of centre). The stem has two ridges as does Tall Tutsan(Hypericum androsaemum) (rather than the four of Stinking Tutsan (Hypericum hircinum). |
13th July 2013, pub garden, Howtown, Ullswater, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
An erect and hairless shrub which grows to 80cm. They are cultivated but often bird-sown. |
13th July 2013, pub garden, Howtown, Ullswater, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
13th July 2013, pub garden, Howtown, Ullswater, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
Leaves large, opposite, without stalks, and stacked vertically above each other (not alternate pairs at right angles to each other). The stems have 2 opposite ridges along them. |
13th July 2013, pub garden, Howtown, Ullswater, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
The stamens are about as long as the petals, whereas the styles are shorter than the stamens. |
13th July 2013, pub garden, Howtown, Ullswater, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
13th July 2013, pub garden, Howtown, Ullswater, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
13th July 2013, pub garden, Howtown, Ullswater, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
Spent stamens litter the leaf. |
Hybridizes with : Stinking Tutsan (Hypericum hircinum) to produce Tutsan only smells slightly aromatic when the leaves are crushed. The name 'Tutsan' is derived from 'Toutesaine' meaning 'all healthy'. In the 1600's it was used to treat sciatica, gout, wounds and, probably with less success, cholera. Although Tutsan itself is half evergreen, Stinking Tutsan is deciduous. It is native to the UK throughout the West and South of the British Isles but frequently naturalised outside its native range. It grows amongst deciduous woods in damp conditions, in hedge banks and in grykes in limestone pavements.
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