Syringa wolfii Schneid.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Syringa wolfii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/syringa/syringa-wolfii/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

Genus

Synonyms

  • S. formosissima Nakai

Glossary

calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
panicle
A much-branched inflorescence. paniculate Having the form of a panicle.
corolla
The inner whorl of the perianth. Composed of free or united petals often showy.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
lanceolate
Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Syringa wolfii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/syringa/syringa-wolfii/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

A deciduous shrub up to 20 ft high; young shoots glabrous or nearly so, turning grey. Leaves oval-lanceolate, slenderly pointed, more or less abruptly tapered at the base, glabrous except for down beneath (especially on the veins), 3 to 7 in. long, about half as wide, dark green above, pale beneath; stalk 12 to 1 in. long. Panicle terminal, up to 12 in. long, opening in June; flower-stalks downy. Flowers lilac, fragrant; corolla 12 in. long, the lobes erect; anthers inserted half-way down the tube, primrose yellow. Calyx usually more or less downy, sometimes glabrous; cup-shaped, scarcely or not at all lobed. Seed-vessel 12 in. long, glabrous, blunt ended. Series Villosae.

Native of Korea and Manchuria; introduced about 1909. This handsome and very hardy lilac is related to S. villosa, which differs, however, in the corolla lobes being spreading and in the anthers being near the mouth. It is still more closely allied to S. josikaea, the Hungarian lilac, which has the same erect corolla lobes but has smaller anthers inserted even lower than those of S. wolfii. S. josikaea is not so vigorous, has smaller leaves paler beneath, and is not so handsome a shrub.