Abelia chinensis
Branch with inflorescences
The Chinese Abelia ( Abelia chinensis ) is a free-flowering and fragrant shrub of the honeysuckle family ( Caprifoliaceae ). Its distribution area is located in China, Taiwan and Japan.
Description
The Chinese Abelia is a deciduous, up to 2 meters high, breitwüchsiger shrub with fine reddish hairy branches. The leaves are opposite, rarely in Dreierwirteln. The leaf blade is 2 to 5 inches long and 1 to 3.5 centimeters wide, pointed or long, pointed, with heart-shaped or rounded base and serrated leaf edge. The top is dark green and slightly hairy, the underside is lighter than the top. The nerves are hairy fluffy on the Spreitenbasis. The flowers are in pairs in axillary or terminal panicles. The individual flowers are fragrant and 1.25 inches long. The calyx is formed by five elliptic, 5-6 mm long sepals that turn red in the development of the fruit. The crown is fünfzipfelig, white to pinkish and 10 to 12 millimeters long. The stamens and the style protrude from the calyx. The ovary is cylindrical and hairy. The species blooms from August to September, the fruits ripen from October to November. The chromosome number is.
Distribution and location
The natural range of the Chinese Abelia is located in China, Taiwan and Japan. Where it grows in steppes and dry forests at altitudes from 200 to 1500 meters on dry to fresh, mildly acidic to strongly alkaline, sandy- loamy to loamy, fertile soil in sun to hot locations. The species is moisture and frost.
System
The Chinese Abelia ( Abelia chinensis ) is a species of the genus Abelia ( Abelia ) in the family of Honeysuckle ( Caprifoliaceae ), subfamily Linnaeoideae. The species was first described by Robert Brown in 1818, the genus name Abelia honors the British physician, botanist and naturalist Clarke Abel, the epithet chinensis refers to the origin from China.
Use
The Chinese Abelia is often used in China because of the decorative and fragrant flowers as an ornamental plant. Outside China it is rarely cultivated.