Stachyurus yunnanensis Franch.

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

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'Stachyurus yunnanensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/stachyurus/stachyurus-yunnanensis/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

Genus

Stachyurus

Other taxa in genus

Stachyurus praecox

Glossary

inflorescence: Flower-bearing part of a plant; arrangement of flowers on the floral axis.
style: Generally an elongated structure arising from the ovary bearing the stigma at its tip.
acuminate: Narrowing gradually to a point.
apex: (pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
caudate: With a long tail-like appendage.
cuneate: Wedge-shaped.
exserted: Protruding; pushed out.
glabrous: Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
lanceolate: Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
ovate: Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
serrate: With saw-like teeth at edge. serrulate Minutely serrate.

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

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'Stachyurus yunnanensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/stachyurus/stachyurus-yunnanensis/). Accessed 2024-04-18.

A shrub to about 15 ft high in the wild. Leaves leathery, persisting through the winter, ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, up to 5 in. long and 15⁄8 in. wide, acuminate to caudate at the apex, cuneate at the base, finely and sharply serrate, glabrous on both sides. Inflorescence 23⁄8 to 4 in. long, with about twenty flowers on peduncles up to 3⁄8 in. long, with leaves persisting at the base. Flowers yellow, with obovate petals. Style exserted.

A native of southern and western China. It is of recent introduction and nothing is yet known of its value for gardens. Also now probably in cultivation is the closely related S. obovatus (Rehd.) Hand.-Mazz (S. yunnanensis var. obovatus Rehd.) with smaller, obovate or lyre-shaped leaves and very short, few-flowered inflorescences.