Pieris japonica
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Read about Pieris japonica in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Pieris japonica, D. Don (Andromeda japonica, Thunb.). Fig. 2946. Shrub, with spreading branches or sometimes small tree to 30 ft.: branches glabrous: lvs. crowded at the ends of branches, obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, crenately serrulate, narrowly cuneate at the base, glabrous, 1 1/2 -2 1/2 in. long: fls. in pendulous panicles, 2 1/2 - 5 in. long; corolla ovate, not angled, 1/4 in. long. April, May. Japan. R.B. 11:10. B.H. 21:19. Gn. 12:98, and p. 424; 50, p. 307; 57, p. 399. G.C. II. 17:797. M.D.G. 1898:544. G.W. 9, p. 354. J.H. III. 51:109. G.M. 55:199. G. 24:141; 27:182: 31:593. S.I.F. 1:78. Var. albo-marginata, Rehd. Lvs. with whitish margin and smaller. Var. pygmaea, Maxim. Dwarf form with small linear-oblanceolate lvs. Japanese botanists speak of a variety with the racemes a foot and more long; this form seems to be not yet intro. P. japonica is one of the most graceful early-blooming evergreens. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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