Compact Deutzia is a deciduous shrub, 2-3 m tall, with green leaves, cultivated for their usually white or pink flowers that appear in late spring. This rare, July blooming species forms a net bush. Sweetly scented flowers appear in 7 cm wide corymbs, pink in bud opening white. Flowering branchlets brown or reddish brown, 10-­12 cm, 6-­10 leaved, stellate hairy. Leaf blade ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, papery. Flowering: April­July.