Korean Abelia

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Korean Abelia
Branch with inflorescences

Branch with inflorescences

Systematics
Euasterids II
Order : Cardigans (Dipsacales)
Family : Honeysuckle Family (Caprifoliaceae)
Subfamily : Linnaeoideae
Genre : Abelia ( Abelia )
Type : Korean Abelia
Scientific name
Abelia mosanensis
THChung ex Nakai
Habitus
Branch with leaves and flowers

The Korean abelia ( Abelia mosanensis ) is a free-flowering shrub from the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae). Their distribution area is on the Korean Peninsula .

description

The Korean Abelia is a deciduous, up to 2 meters high, broad-growing, upright, loosely and irregularly growing shrub with protruding to overhanging twigs that are reddish when young and initially hairy. The almost sessile leaves have narrow, elliptical, 4 to 10 centimeters long, entire leaf blades. The upper side of the leaf is glossy dark green, the autumn color is orange-red. The flowers are 12 to 15 in 4 to 5 centimeter long, umbel-like clusters at the ends of short shoots. The individual flowers are white to pale pink, with a salver-shaped crown . The corolla tube is 1 to 1.2 inches long and carmine red. The hem is spread out and 1.5 inches long. Flowering time is from May to June, but the species can re-bloom in summer.

Distribution and location

The natural range of the Korean Abelia is in the temperate zone on the Korean Peninsula . There it grows in species-rich forests on fresh to moist, slightly acidic to alkaline, mostly loamy, good soils in sunny to light-shady, cool, balanced locations. The species is frost hardy.

Systematics

The Korean Abelia ( Abelia mosanensis ) is a kind of the genus Abelia ( Abelia ) in the family of Honeysuckle (Caprifoliaceae), subfamily Linnaeoideae .

use

The Korean Abelia is sometimes used as an ornamental plant for its decorative flowers .

proof

literature

  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , pp. 60-61.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , pp. 60–61
  2. ↑ a b c Roloff et al .: Flora of the Woods , pp. 60–61
  3. ↑ a b Abelia mosanensis. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed January 21, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Abelia mosanensis . In: The Plant List. Retrieved January 21, 2012 .

Web links

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