Seasonal Interest and Photographs

Heptacodium miconioides Rehd.
 
Seven-Son Flower

Flowers: White, fragrant, in large loose clusters, beginning in mid August and continuing through mid to late September. Attractive pink calyxes develop after the flowers fade and resemble Abelia.

Foliage: Attractive, medium-green leaves, prominent veins, no fall color.

Fruit: Not significant, except see calyxes.

Location: Horticultural Research Farm, ornamental planting.

Photographs: Click on an image to see a larger version:

form, young plant foliage form, mature plant flowers form, in bloom
mature plant, form, in bloom bark exfoliation mature form flowers foliage and sepals (after flowering)
sepals (after flowering) leaves and arrangement      

 

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