Abeliophyllum distichum Nakai

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

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'Abeliophyllum distichum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/abeliophyllum/abeliophyllum-distichum/). Accessed 2023-06-06.

Other taxa in genus

    Glossary

    apex
    (pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
    axillary
    Situated in an axil.
    calyx
    (pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
    ciliate
    Fringed with long hairs.
    entire
    With an unbroken margin.
    glabrous
    Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
    ovate
    Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
    simple
    (of a leaf) Unlobed or undivided.

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    Credits

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

    Recommended citation
    'Abeliophyllum distichum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/abeliophyllum/abeliophyllum-distichum/). Accessed 2023-06-06.

    A deciduous shrub 3 ft or more high; young shoots glabrous, grooved on opposite sides, making them four-angled, slightly warted. Leaves opposite, in two ranks, simple, entire, ovate to oval, 2 to 312 in. long, slender-pointed, wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, hairy on both surfaces; stalk very short. Flowers white or faintly tinged with pink on opening, borne in axillary racemes 12 to 112 in. long of three to fifteen; petals four, oblong, 38 in. long, 110 in. wide, notched at the apex; calyx 18 in. long with four rounded, ciliate lobes; stamens two, anthers yellow, filaments 112 in. long; calyx and flower-stalk glabrous, very darkly coloured. The fruit recalls that of an elm, being compressed, almost circular, and edged all around with a wing. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 10.

    Native of Korea; introduced in 1924. It is a beautiful early-flowering shrub but comes from a region where, although the winters are much colder than here, the summers are decidedly hotter. For this reason, no doubt, it has not been generally successful as an open-ground plant but might be tried on a wall, as in the R.H.S. Garden at Wisley, where it will grow to 8 ft or more high. The wood deteriorates after a few seasons and should be renewed fairly frequently by pruning heavily immediately after flowering is over. It is propagated by cuttings of half-ripened wood, taken in July, or by layers.