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Single Bridal Wreath Spirea
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Single Bridal Wreath Spirea
P Introduced Photo: Seema Bin Zeenat
Common name: Single Bridal Wreath Spirea
Botanical name: Spiraea prunifolia var. pseudoprunifolia    Family: 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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