oakleaved

Updated: May 29, 2025

We may next turn our attention to the varieties of trees with cut leaves, as the oakleaved Laburnum, the parsley-leaved vine and the fern-leaved birch.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

It is afforded by some plants the leaves of which, instead of being entire or only divided into large parts, are cleft to a greater extent by repeated fissures of the marginal lobes. Such foliar variations are often seen in gardens, where they are cultivated for their beauty or singularity, as the laciniated alders, fern-leaved, beeches and limes, oakleaved laburnums, etc.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation