Cistus × florentinus 'Fontfroide'
Common name:
Fontfroide Rockrose
Pronunciation:
SIS-tus
Family:
Cistacea
Genus:
Type:
Broadleaf
Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon:
No
- Evergreen shrub, upright, rounded, apparently somewhat variable in size, but can reach 5 ft high and wide (1.5 × 1.5 m). Leaves opposite, simple. Flowers white, 3-3.5 cm wide, flowers heavily.
- Sun, well-drained soil
- Hardy to USDA Zone (7) 8 From a cross of C. monspeliensis × C. salviifolius and selected by Jean-Pierre Demoly.
- Robert G. Page (Cistus & Halimium Website) states that "plants sold under this name are rarely true to name. The name has long been misapplied to Cistus 'Enigma' (recently named by me) and other hybrids."
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