Deutzia crenata - Japanese Crenate Deutzia

Japanese Crenate Deutzia is a shrub 1-3 m tall. Flowers are borne in cyme-like panicles 5-10 x 3-6 cm, many flowered; flower-stalks 3-5 mm. Petals are white, narrowly elliptic, 0.8-1.5 cm x about 6 mm. Outer stamens 8-10 mm; filaments 2-toothed at tip, teeth horizontal, not reaching anthers; anthers borne between filament teeth, stalked, oblong. Inner stamens are shorter than outer ones; filaments 2-toothed at tip, rarely strap-shaped. Styles are 3(or 4), longer than stamens. Sepal-tube is about 2.5 x 2 mm; sepals ovate, about 1.2 x 1 mm, densely yellow-brown hairy. Flowering branchlets are red-brown, 8-12 cm, 4-6-leaved, hairy. Leaf-stalks are 3-8 mm; leaf blade below green, ovate or ovate-lanceshaped, 5-8 x 1-3 cm, papery, below sparsely hairy, veins in 3-5 pairs, base rounded or broadly wedge-shaped, margin minutely toothed and slightly curled, tip tapering or abruptly so. Capsules are hemispheric, about 4 mm in diameter, sparsely hairy. Japanese Crenate Deutzia is native to Japan, cultivated and naturalized in East Himalaya, S. China, USA and Europe. Flowering: April-June.