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Deutzia sieboldiana Maxim.

Modern name

Deutzia sieboldiana Maxim.

Synonyms

D. scabra Sieb. & Zucc., not Thunb.

A deciduous shrub of bushy, rather lax habit 4 to 6 ft high; young shoots covered with scurfy stellate down. Leaves ovate or oval, 112 to 3 in. long on the barren shoots, 58 to 114 in. wide, rounded, heart-shaped, or tapered at the base, pointed, sharply and irregularly toothed, dull green, stellately hairy on both surfaces, the hairs with three to five rays; veins prominent beneath; stalk 14 in. or less long. Leaves of the flowering twigs smaller and comparatively broader; often scarcely stalked. Flowers pure white, 12 in. in diameter, produced during early June in corymbose-paniculate clusters 1 to 212 in. long, terminating short lateral twigs which carry one or two pairs of leaves. Petals ovate; style rather longer than the stamens, whose wings (at least of the longer ones) taper towards the anthers; calyx felted, the lobes broadly triangular, persistent. Flower-stalks rough with bristles and stellate down.

Native of Japan; and an elegant though not showy shrub. It is of dwarfer habit than D. scabra, to which it is allied, and differs botanically in having the leaves on the flowering wood almost sessile; and in the longer, tapered anthers (see also D. scabra). The flowers are mignonette-scented and the stamens orange-coloured.


Deutzia sieboldiana

Deutzia sieboldiana

Genus

Deutzia

Other species in the genus