Stachyurus yunnanensis
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Stachyurus yunnanensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
A shrub to about 15 ft high in the wild. Leaves leathery, persisting through the winter, ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, up to 5 in. long and 15⁄8 in. wide, acuminate to caudate at the apex, cuneate at the base, finely and sharply serrate, glabrous on both sides. Inflorescence 23⁄8 to 4 in. long, with about twenty flowers on peduncles up to 3⁄8 in. long, with leaves persisting at the base. Flowers yellow, with obovate petals. Style exserted.
A native of southern and western China. It is of recent introduction and nothing is yet known of its value for gardens.
