Seasonal Wild Flowers

Tall Tutsan

Hypericum androsaemum x H. hircinum

Hypericaceae

June to August

It is thinly scattered throughout the country and most

common in the South and the Southwest.

See the BSBI distribution map for Tall Tutsan

It is a neophyte that originated as a cross in the 1760s and

has been known in the wild since the 1880s.

It grows in damp or shaded places, such as hedges, small

woods and by streams.

Tall Tutsan is a bushy shrub, growing up to 2m.

Flowers are up to 3cm, bright yellow, with stamens slightly

longer than the petals.

There are numerous stamens with yellow anthers.

There are 3 styles and stigmas.

The sepals are ovate to lanceolate and half the length of

the petals.

The sepals persist with the fruits and bend backwards.

Leaves are up to 8cm, ovate to oblong and aromatic

when crushed.

Stems are branched, reddish and 2-ridged

Tall Tutsan, Dorset

Flower from front - styles and stamens

Flower from side

Sepals in buds and recurved in fruit,

remains of 3 styles

Opposite leaves

2-ridged stem