Prinsepia sinensis (Oliver) Oliver ex Bean

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Prinsepia sinensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/prinsepia/prinsepia-sinensis/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Synonyms

  • Plagiospermum sinense Oliver

Glossary

alternate
Attached singly along the axis not in pairs or whorls.
ciliate
Fringed with long hairs.
lanceolate
Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
lax
Loose or open.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Prinsepia sinensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/prinsepia/prinsepia-sinensis/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

A deciduous shrub of rather lax, spreading habit, about 6 ft high; stems armed with solitary, stiff, short spines, from beneath which spring the leaves; pith chambered (divided into thin plates). Leaves alternate on the shoots of the year, oblong-lanceolate, finely ciliate, 112 to 3 in. long, about 12 in. wide; produced in clusters on the year-old shoots. Flowers borne singly in the leaf-axils on slender stalks 12 in. long; they are solitary, or clustered two to four together; each flower 12 to 34 in. in diameter, petals five, bright yellow, roundish, tapered to a short claw. Fruits red and juicy, 35 in. long, ripening in August. Bot. Mag., t. 8711

Native of Manchuria; it was introduced from France in 1908 and is quite hardy.