Loropetalum chinense
(c) Ursula Heck
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Loropetalum chinense
(c) Ursula Heck
Loropetalum chinense
(c) Ursula Heck
Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum
Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum
Just a shrub in my back yard, but at sunset, the light made this little Showoff, show off.
7/21/2023 Riverfront Park, Columbia, SC
Sony ILCE-6000, Sony E 55-210mm F4.5-6.3 OSS
© 2023 R. D. Waters
On February 18, 1817 British HMS Alceste - once the French navy's Minerve - was shipwrecked in the Java Sea. Ten days later she was sacked and burned by Malay pirates. Most aboard - including the intrepid surgeon and naturalist Clarke Abel (1780-1826) - were saved and they survived after many adventures. But Abel's large collection of Chinese plants was lost. He'd collected them as a member of a British failed expedition to establish diplomatic relations with the Chinese court, 1816-1817. He'd left several of his plants with the orientalist George Staunton (1781-1859) at Canton who later returned them to him.
One of these was a specimen of our shrub which was first described as a Hamamelis. It's now known as Loropetalum chinense. The plant has spread all over the world especially for purposes of ornamentation and hedging. It's also known as 'Strapping Flower'. I suppose because its petals look like the straps used once on naughty schoolboys like myself...
Loropetalum chinense
(c) Birgit Kurth
Loropetalum chinense
(c) Birgit Kurth
Photographed at the Como Park Conservatory, St. Paul Minnesota, Feb. 26, 2023.
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small tree
Hamamelidaceae family,
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Chinese fringe-flower (dark pink flowers) - Loropetalum chinense
Pink diosma, also called 'Pink Breath Of Heaven', - Coleonema pulchellum
FIELD GUIDE : FLOWERING TREES of the WORLD ----> Scientific Names Flickr Database
"Chinese Fringe Flower." Seen at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden.
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