Botanical name:Loropetalum chinense var. rubrumFamily:Hamamelidaceae (Witch-hazel family)
Red Chinese Fringe Flower is an evergreen shrub or
small tree up to 3 m tall, branches velvet-hairy. Leaves are ovate,
elliptic to obovate, up to 6 cm long, often tinged purple, densely
velvet-hairy, margin entire, lateral veins 4-8 on each side. Flowers
are red, borne in a dense up to 16 flowered raceme, on up to 1 cm long
peduncle. Flower-stalk is short, sepals ovate, 2-3 mm long, petals 4-6,
red, 1-2 cm long with rounded apex, stamens 4 or 5, anthers ovoid,
ovary inferior, fruit capsule obovoid-globose, 7-8 mm long, with
persistent calyx cup. Red Chinese Fringe Flower is native to Japan and
SE Asia including southern China. It is cultivated as a garden plant.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
Photographed in cultivation in Imphal & Delhi.
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