Abelia triflora

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	Habit: shrubCH Height: ⇕ 10ftCH Width: ⇔ Lifespan: ⌛ perennial Origin: ✈ Poisonous: ☠	Exposure: ☼ Water: ◍ Features: ✓ flowers Hardiness: ☃ Bloom: ❀ summmer USDA Zones: 7-9 Sunset Zones: na
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Large shrub or small tree, vigorous and erect in habit, with deeply ridged bark and deciduous, ovate, dark green leaves, to 3in (8cm) long. Small, very fragrant, pink-tinged white flowers, 1/2 in (1.5cm) long, with 5-lobed, bronze-red, narrowly segmented calyces, are produced in threes from the upper leaf axils, in clusters to 2in (5cm) across, in summer. N.W. Himalayas.

Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Shrub, to 10 ft., branchlets with reflexed hairs: leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1½-2½ in. long, ciliate and sparingly hairy on both sides or nearly glabrous, entire or occasionally on vigorous shoots with a few coarse teeth, half-evergreen: fls. in terminal clusters, fragrant; sepals linear, hairy, ½ in. long; corolla tubular with spreading limb, white flushed pink, ¾ in. long. Summer. Himalayas. A very handsome species; after the flowers are gone the feathery sepals remain as an attractive feature. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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