Chinese Abelia

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Chinese Abelia
Branch with inflorescences

Branch with inflorescences

Systematics
Euasterids II
Order : Cardigans (Dipsacales)
Family : Honeysuckle Family (Caprifoliaceae)
Subfamily : Linnaeoideae
Genre : Abelia ( Abelia )
Type : Chinese Abelia
Scientific name
Abelia chinensis
R.Br.
Habitus

The Chinese Abelia ( Abelia chinensis ) is a free-flowering and fragrant shrub from the honeysuckle family (Caprifoliaceae). It is found in China, Taiwan and Japan.

description

The Chinese Abelia is a deciduous, broad-growing shrub up to 2 meters high with finely reddish hairy branches. The leaves are opposite, rarely in three whorls . The leaf blade is 2 to 5 inches long and 1 to 3.5 inches wide, pointed or pointed long, with a heart-shaped or rounded base and serrated leaf margin. The top is dark green and somewhat hairy, the bottom is lighter than the top. The nerves are downy hairy at the base of the blades. The flowers are in pairs in axillary or terminal panicles . The individual flowers are fragrant and 1.25 inches long. The calyx is made up of five elliptical, 5 to 6 millimeter long sepals that turn red as the fruit develops. The crown is five-lobed, tinged white to pink and 10 to 12 millimeters long. The stamens and the stylus protrude from the calyx. The ovary is cylindrical and hairy.

The species blooms from August to September, the fruits ripen from October to November.

The number of chromosomes is .

Distribution and location

The natural range of the Chinese Abelia is in China, Taiwan and Japan. There it grows in steppes and dry forests at heights of 200 to 1500 meters on dry to fresh, weakly acidic to strongly alkaline, sandy-loamy to loamy, nutrient-rich soils in sunny and hot locations. The species is sensitive to moisture and frost.

Systematics

The Chinese Abelia ( Abelia chinensis ) is a kind of genus Abelia ( Abelia ) in the family of Honeysuckle (Caprifoliaceae), subfamily Linnaeoideae . The species was first described by Robert Brown in 1818 , the genus name Abelia honors the British doctor, botanist and naturalist Clarke Abel , the specific epithet chinensis refers to its origin in China.

use

The Chinese Abelia is often used as an ornamental plant in China because of its decorative and fragrant flowers . It is rarely cultivated outside of China.

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 , p. 60.
  • Renata Borosova: Abelia chinensis . In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 19: Cucurbitaceae through Valerianaceae, with Annonaceae and Berberidaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2011, ISBN 978-1-935641-04-9 , pp. 645 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name after Roloff among others: Flora of the woods. P. 60.
  2. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al.: Flora of the woods. P. 60.
  3. ↑ a b c Renata Borosova: Abelia chinensis. In: Flora of China. Volume 19, p. 645.
  4. ↑ a b Abelia chinensis. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed January 21, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Abelia chinensis . In: The Plant List. Retrieved January 21, 2012 .
  6. ^ Clarke Abel: Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China. quoted from Abelia chinensis. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed January 21, 2012 .

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