Spiraea longigemmis
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Spiraea longigemmis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Spiraea alpina
- Spiraea arcuata
- Spiraea 'Arguta'
- Spiraea bella
- Spiraea betulifolia
- Spiraea × brachybotrys
- Spiraea calcicola
- Spiraea cana
- Spiraea canescens
- Spiraea cantoniensis
- Spiraea chamaedryfolia
- Spiraea chinensis
- Spiraea crenata
- Spiraea decumbens
- Spiraea douglasii
- Spiraea gemmata
- Spiraea henryi
- Spiraea hypericifolia
- Spiraea japonica
- Spiraea 'Margaritae'
- Spiraea media
- Spiraea miyabei
- Spiraea mollifolia
- Spiraea myrtilloides
- Spiraea nipponica
- Spiraea prunifolia
- Spiraea rosthornii
- Spiraea salicifolia
- Spiraea × sanssouciana
- Spiraea sargentiana
- Spiraea thunbergii
- Spiraea tomentosa
- Spiraea trichocarpa
- Spiraea trilobata
- Spiraea × vanhouttei
- Spiraea veitchii
- Spiraea yunnanensis
A shrub 4 or 5 ft high, with glabrous, erect, angular stems, and curiously flat, leaf-like winter buds often 1⁄3 in. long. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, wedge-shaped at the base, sharply and deeply, often doubly, toothed, 11⁄2 to 3 in. long, 3⁄4 to 11⁄4 in. wide, bright green and glabrous above, rather glaucous and hairy on the veins beneath when young; stalk 1⁄8 to 1⁄4 in. long. Flowers white, 1⁄4 in. across, produced towards the end of May in broad, rounded, corymbose panicles 2 to 31⁄2 in. across and 1 to 2 in. long; stamens prominent; flower-stalk and calyx downy.
Native of W. China; described from specimens collected in Kansu but reported from as far south as Yunnan. It is a very pretty white-flowered spiraea, blossoming late enough to escape injury by frost, but now uncommon in cultivation. It was introduced towards the end of the last century and used to grow well at Grayswood Hill, Haslemere – the upper side of the branches wreathed with corymbs terminating long leafy twigs (Gardening Illustrated, 13 July, 1912). It is in cultivation at Kew.