Philadelphus sericanthus
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Philadelphus sericanthus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Philadelphus argyrocalyx
- Philadelphus californicus
- Philadelphus coronarius
- Philadelphus delavayi
- Philadelphus 'Falconeri'
- Philadelphus hirsutus
- Philadelphus incanus
- Philadelphus inodorus
- Philadelphus insignis
- Philadelphus lewisii
- Philadelphus magdalenae
- Philadelphus mexicanus
- Philadelphus microphyllus
- Philadelphus pekinensis
- Philadelphus pubescens
- Philadelphus satsumi
- Philadelphus schrenkii
- Philadelphus: The Hybrids
- Philadelphus tomentosus
- Philadelphus zeyheri
A shrub 6 to 12 ft high, shoots glabrous, becoming reddish brown the first year, ultimately peeling. Leaves ovate to oval-lanceolate, tapered to both ends, especially to the slender acuminate apex, coarsely toothed with up to eleven pairs, 11⁄2 to 4 in. long by 1 to 21⁄2 in. wide, sometimes entire, sparsely hairy or glabrous above with a few hairs at the back and tufts in the vein-axils. Flowers about 1 in. wide in racemes of up to eleven, not scented; petals pure white, rounded-oval to nearly orbicular; calyx and stalks densely covered with appressed, stiff, white hairs; style glabrous. Bot. Mag., t. 8941.
Native of Hupeh and Szechwan, China; discovered by Augustine Henry in 1888–9 and introduced to France in 1897, when M. de Vilmorin received seeds from the Abbé Farges. To Britain it was introduced by Wilson in 1900, when collecting for Messrs Veitch. It is quite hardy and flowers freely in June.