Abelia × grandiflora

Plant Characteristics

Habit		shrub
Height:	⇕	10 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Width:	⇔	12 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Origin:	✈	Garden origin
Bloom:	❀	mid summer, late summer, early fall, mid fall, late fall

Cultivation

Features:	✓	flowers, fragrance
USDA Zones:		6 to 9
Flower features:	❀	pink, white

Scientific Names

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Abelia × grandiflora (Glossy Abelia) is a hybrid Abelia, raised by hybridising Abelia chinensis with A. uniflora. It is a deciduous or semi-evergreen multi-stemmed shrub with rounded, spreading, or gracefully arching branches to 1-1.8 m tall. The leaves are ovate, glossy, dark green, 2-6 cm long. The flowers are produced in clusters, white, tinged pink, bell-shaped, to 2 cm long. Unlike most flowering shrubs in cultivation, the Glossy Abelia blooms from late summer to well into the autumn.

Abelia × grandiflora was first raised at the Rovelli nursery by Lake Maggiore in Italy in 1886. It is used as an ornamental plant in specimen plantings in gardens, or in a mixed border with other shrubs. Propagation is by cuttings. Variegated forms are also available commercially.

Synonyms include Abelia rupestris Hort., Linnaea pringiana Graebn, and L. spaethiana Graebn.

Varieties

• 'Francis Mason' - yellow leaves with dark green markings, not as vigorous
• 'Goldsport' (syn. 'Gold Strike') - has completely yellow leaves

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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