Abelia chinensis
| Habit | shrub
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| Height: | ⇕ | 6 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6. |
| Width: | ⇔ | 8 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8. |
| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Origin: | ✈ | China |
| Bloom: | ❀ | early summer, mid summer, late summer, early fall, mid fall, late fall |
| Exposure: | ☼ | sun |
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| Water: | ◍ | moist |
| Features: | ✓ | deciduous, flowers, butterflys |
| USDA Zones: | 8 to 10 | |
| Sunset Zones: | 4-24, 28-34 | |
| Flower features: | ❀ | white |
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Abelia chinensis (Chinese abelia, syn. A. rupestris). Spreading, deciduous shrub to 4-5 ft. tall with fragrant, pink-tinted white flowers in summer and fall. Exceptionally attractive to butterflies. Has ovate, glossy, dark green leaves, to 1. 1/2 in (4cm) long. From summer to autumn, bears terminal panicles of fragrant, funnel-shaped, pink-tinged white flowers, 1/4 in (6mm) long, with 5-lobed pink calyces.
Read about Abelia chinensis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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R. Br. (A. rupestris, Lindl.). Shrub, 3-6 ft.: lvs. ovate, rounded at the base, 3/4 - l 1/2 in. long, serrate, hairy on the midrib beneath and sometimes with scattered hairs above, deciduous: fls. in terminal dense panicles, funnel-form, white, ½ in. long; sepals oblong, ¼ in. long; stamens exserted. Summer. China. B.R. 32:8. Gn. 27, p. 424. P.F.G. 2:201. G. 8:143.— A. rupestris is sometimes considered a distinct species, but the differences are very slight. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text. |
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
- Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608
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