GENERAL DESCRIPTION

• ORIGIN: 300-2000 m. China (Chongqing, Northeast Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Zhejiang). Robert Fortune discovered this cultivated shrub in a Shanghai nursery and introduced it in 1846.
• CLIMATE: Withstands -10°C.
• EXPOSITION : Situation ombragée ou au soleil non brulant.
• SOIL: Humus-rich.
• GROWTH :
• PATHOLOGY:
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• PRNING:
• USE: Ideal shrub for small gardens.
• MERITE:

GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY

• DIMENSIONS: Can reach 1.2m tall in cultivation, larger in nature.
• PORT: Upright.
• TRUNK:
• BARK:
• BRANCHES: Upright and unbranched stems.
• NOTE:

PHYSIOLOGY OF LEAVES

• SHAPE: Obovate to obovate-elliptic, 10-28 × 8-18 cm; usually composed of seven linear-lanceolate leaflets. Pinnate.
• COLOUR: Pale green leaves, sometimes slightly glaucous, pale green to dark green.
• NOTE: Leaves, evergreen.

PHYSIOLOGY OF FLOWERS

• TIME: Blooms in late autumn (October and November).
• FORM: Grouped in narrow cylindrical racemes 5 to 7.5 cm long, erect.
• COLOUR: Bright yellow.
• NOTE:

PHYSIOLOGY OF FRUIT

• SHAPE: Globular, 4-6 mm in diameter.
• COLOUR: Bluish-purple, pruinose.
• SEEDS :
• NOTE: This species rarely fruits in our latitudes.