Botanical name:Spiraea prunifolia var. pseudoprunifoliaFamily:Rosaceae (Rose family) Synonyms: Spiraea pseudoprunifolia
Single Bridal Wreath Spirea is a shrub up to 3 m.
Branchlets are red-brown, turning gray-brown to black-brown when old.
Leaf blade is oblong-lanceshaped, 1.5-3 x 0.7-1.4 cm, densely
persistently appressed velvet-hairy below, margin mostly minutely
sharply sawtoothed from near base or above middle to tip. Flowers are
single, less than 1 cm in diameter, borne in stalkless few-flowered
umbels, with a few clustered leaves at base. Flower-stalks are 1-2.4
cm, bracts leaflike, 4-7 x 3-5 mm. Seedpods are hairless. Single Bridal
Wreath Spirea is native to Taiwan, cultivated elsewhere.
Identification credit: Seema Bin Zeenat, Tabish
Photographed in cultivation in Rajouri, J&K.
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