Hypericum androsaemum
Common name: 
Tutsan
Pronunciation: 
hi-PER-i-kum an-dro-SE-mum
Family: 
Hypericaceae
Genus: 
Hypericum
Type: 
Broadleaf
Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon: 
No
  • Deciduous shrub, to 1 m tall, bushy, with erect branches.  Leaves simple, opposite, 4-15 cm long, oblong-ovate to broadly ovate, dark blue-green, lighter beneath and lacking dark glands.  Flowers yellow, 1.5-2 cm wide, star-shaped or cupped.  Fruit fleshy, red-brown then usually ripening to black.
  • Sun to part shade
  • Hardy to USDA Zone 6     Native to western Europe and northern Africa.
  • Hypericum: Greek, hyper, above, and eikon, a picture, it was hung above pictures to ward off evil spirit;  androsaemus: Greek name for a plant with red sap, andros, man, and haima, blood.
  • Corvallis: southeast corner of Central Park (6th St. and Madison).
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