Eubotrys recurva
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'Eubotrys recurva' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Common Names
- Fetterbush
Synonyms
- Andromeda recurva Buckley
- Leucothoe recurva (Buckley) A.Gray
Editorial Note
The text below is based on that of Bean (1981) who discussed this taxon under the name Leucothoe recurva. We have created this hybrid article – an adapted version of Bean’s text under the correct modern name, with appropriate synonymy – whilst we await sponsorship to enable a full revision of this genus to be written.
On the dismantling over recent decades of Leucothoe s.l. see the entry for that genus; also the entries for Agarista and Eubotryoides.
Distribution United States southern and central Appalachians
USDA Hardiness Zone 5-9
A deciduous shrub usually 3 to 8 ft high, the young shoots slightly downy or glabrous. Leaves narrowly oval or lanceolate, tapering at both ends, thin but firm, toothed, 11⁄2 to 4 in. long, 1⁄2 to 11⁄4 in. wide, downy on the veins and midrib beneath; stalk very short. Flowers produced during May and June in decurved racemes, 2 to 3 in. long, terminating short twigs of the previous year. Corolla white, cylindrical, 1⁄4 in. long; sepals ovate, pointed; flower-stalk very short and stout; anthers terminated by two awns, one to each cell.
Introduced to England by Prof. Sargent about 1890, but very rare. It is probably not so hardy, nor so good a garden plant, as its near ally, E. racemosa, from which it differs chiefly in its more diffuse habit, the recurved racemes, and very distinctly grooved seed-vessel; each pollen bag, too, is surmounted by only one bristle instead of two.