Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Escallonia, Escallonia rubra var macrantha, Tomóg ghaelach
Photographs: Co. Cork

Escallonia
Escallonia rubra var. macrantha (Escallonia macrantha)
Tomóg ghaelach
Family: Grossulariaceae

Flowering: June-September. Evergreen shrub. Introduced.

Deep pink-red flowers with 5 petals. The shiny, finely toothed, mid to dark green leaves are leathery, stalkless and alternate. A slightly frost-tender shrub with sticky young shoots. Height to 3m.

A naturalised garden escape or relic of cultivation, increasing on waste ground, roadsides, woodland, walls and hedge banks.

Escallonia, Escallonia rubra var macrantha, Tomóg ghaelach

Escallonia, Escallonia rubra var macrantha, Tomóg ghaelach
Escallonia, Escallonia rubra var. macrantha, Tomóg ghaelach

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