Clethra barbinervis Sieb. & Zucc.

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

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'Clethra barbinervis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/clethra/clethra-barbinervis/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

Genus

Synonyms

  • C. canescens Hort.

Glossary

apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
midrib
midveinCentral and principal vein in a leaf.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Clethra barbinervis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/clethra/clethra-barbinervis/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

A deciduous shrub or small tree 6 to 10 ft high in cultivation, more bushy and less erect than the American species; young shoots at first sprinkled with a minute starry down. Leaves often clustered at the end of the twig, oval or obovate, more tapering at the base than at the apex; 2 to 5 in. long, 1 to 214 in. wide; hairy at first on both sides, but especially so on the midrib and nerves beneath, toothed; stalk 14 to 34 in. long. Flowers white, 13 in. across, produced from July to September in rather compact, terminal panicles 4 to 6 in. long, covered with white, starry down; calyx and seed-vessel hairy; stamens glabrous. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 398.

Native of Japan; introduced in 1870. It is a very pretty shrub where it thrives, but it is not so hardy as C. alnifolia, although it will survive all but the severest winters near London. It is quite hardy in the Wild Garden at Wisley, where there are two specimens about 10 ft high which came through the winter of 1962–3 unharmed.