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

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'Philadelphus tomentosus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/philadelphus/philadelphus-tomentosus/). Accessed 2025-04-16.

Family

  • Philadelphaceae

Genus

Glossary

calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
style
Generally an elongated structure arising from the ovary bearing the stigma at its tip.
variety
(var.) Taxonomic rank (varietas) grouping variants of a species with relatively minor differentiation in a few characters but occurring as recognisable populations. Often loosely used for rare minor variants more usefully ranked as forms.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Philadelphus tomentosus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/philadelphus/philadelphus-tomentosus/). Accessed 2025-04-16.

Philadelphus tomentosus

An unusual form of Philadelphus tomentosus with pink-tinged flowers at Bodnant, Wales – where it is labelled "P. delavayi pink form" (3 June 2023). It likely represents the same clone growing at Highdown, Worthing as Philadelphus sp. L&S 17408 (pink form). Image Jack Aldridge.

A shrub 6 or 8 ft high; young shoots glabrous, or slightly hairy when quite young only. Leaves 11⁄2 to 4 in. long, 3⁄4 to 2 in. wide; oval or ovate, with long slender points and a rounded or tapered base, unevenly toothed; dark green and hairy above, especially when young, grey and felted beneath; stalk 1⁄5 to 2⁄5 in. long. Petals oval, rounded at the end; calyx glabrous outside, downy inside; style about as long as the stamens; stigmas separate at the top.

Native of the Himalaya; introduced, according to Loudon, in 1822. It is often regarded as a variety of P. coronarius, but is amply distinguished from it by the grey-felted undersurface of the leaves. It is more nearly related to P. delavayi (q.v.).

f. lancifolius (Koehne) Hara

Synonyms
P. lancifolius Koehne

Styles downy.

f. nepalensis (Koehne) Hara

Synonyms
P. nepalensis Koehne
P. triflorus Wall. ex Hu

Leaves glabrous beneath.

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