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Daphne acutiloba
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Daphne acutiloba' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Daphne alpina
- Daphne altaica
- Daphne arbuscula
- Daphne aurantiaca
- Daphne bholua
- Daphne blagayana
- Daphne × burkwoodii
- Daphne caucasica
- Daphne cneorum
- Daphne genkwa
- Daphne giraldii
- Daphne glomerata
- Daphne gnidium
- Daphne × houtteana
- Daphne × hybrida
- Daphne jasminea
- Daphne jezoensis
- Daphne juliae
- Daphne kamtschatica
- Daphne kiusiana
- Daphne kosaninii
- Daphne laureola
- Daphne longilobata
- Daphne × mantensiana
- Daphne mezereum
- Daphne × neapolitana
- Daphne odora
- Daphne oleoides
- Daphne papyracea
- Daphne petraea
- Daphne pontica
- Daphne pseudomezereum
- Daphne retusa
- Daphne rodriguezii
- Daphne × rossetii
- Daphne sericea
- Daphne sophia
- Daphne striata
- Daphne sureil
- Daphne tangutica
- Daphne × thauma
An evergreen shrub 4 to 8 ft high, with an often bi-forked branching; young shoots covered with pale, forward-pointing bristles, becoming glabrous and purplish brown the second season. Leaves leathery, mostly oblanceolate or lanceolate, tapered to both ends, pointed, 2 to 4 in. long, 1⁄2 to 1 in. wide, glossy and quite glabrous on both surfaces; scarcely stalked. Flowers white, borne during July in stalked heads of six or more at, or near, the apex of the shoots; perianth tubular, 3⁄4 in. long, 5⁄8 in. wide across the four narrowly ovate-oblong lobes, not downy; flower-stalks bristly. Fruit at first scarlet, then dark red.
Native of China; introduced by Wilson in 1907–8 from Hupeh and Szechwan. It is related closely to D. odora but is inferior to that species as regards its blossom, which has no fragrance (or only an intermittent one); the fruit, however, is handsome.