Common name: Compact Deutzia
Botanical name: Deutzia compacta Family: Hydrangeaceae (Hydrangea family)
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.
| Photographed in North Sikkim. |
Identification credit: Navendu Pāgé
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