Enkianthus chinensis
Chinese speciesChinese enkianthus is in the heath or Ericaceae family and is native to China and northeast Myanmar. It is a shrub or small tree up to 4 m tall.
- Leaves are lanceolate to oblong or oval, 5–7.5 cm long, 2.1–3.0 cm wide, tapered to both ends, pointed, shallowly bluntly toothed, downy along the midrib above, bright green above, rather glaucous and glabrous beneath; stalk is slender, up to 2.5 cm long.
- Flowers are in pendulous racemes of 1–2 dozen, 7–13 cm long. Corolla is bell-shaped, 1 cm long and a little wider at the mouth, yellowish striated conspicuously with rose; lobes rose-coloured, recurved.
Contributors
- Philippe de Spoelberch