Dipelta floribunda

Rosy dipelta is in the honeysuckle or Caprifoliaceae family and is native to mixed forest areas in central China. It is a vase-shaped deciduous that typically grows to 3 m tall and wide.

• Bark is mahogany-colored and exfoliates with age in long strips, an attractive feature after autumn leaves drop.
• Leaves are coarse, opposite, ovate to lanceolate, dull green, 5–10 cm long, tapered at the tip and the base; they turn yellow and orange in the fall.
• Flowers are fragrant, funnel-shaped, foxglove-like, pinkish-white, 3 cm long with yellow throats which bloom singly or in clusters from late April to June, each flower having 5 rounded corolla lobes.
• Greenish papery bracts at the base of the corolla expand to surround the fruits (two-seeded achenes) as summer progresses, with the bracts turning tawny pink and finally bronze by late summer.