As the most popular garden tree species in Europe, America and Japan, it can not only view leaves but also appreciate flowers, which meets the requirements of new excellent varieties in Chinese garden application, and has great market potential.
The leaves are leathery and flexible, most of which are alternate, lanceolate to oblanceolate, or oblong, serrated. The tender tip is usually red, bronze, bronze, orange or yellow.
The colorful leaves of intoxicated equisetifolia have unique charm, and the white flowers are born on racemes or panicles, like hanging bells. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, erect or pendulous. The flowers are white, sometimes pink and fragrant. Florescence 2 to 5 months, calyx yellow green or yellow brown, sometimes light reddish brown.
Beautiful drunk tree, small tree, born under the evergreen broad-leaved forest, pine forest or forest edge shrub with an altitude of 1500-2800 meters. Branchlets cylindrical, glabrous, leaf scars on branches; winter buds smaller, ovoid, scales outside glabrous.
Racemes clustered in axils at the top of branches, or sometimes in terminal panicles, 4-10 cm long, sparsely more than 20 cm long; pedicels pilose.
Sepals broadly lanceolate, ca. 3 mm long; corolla white, altar shaped, outside pilose, upper part light 5-lobed, apex of lobes obtuse; stamens 10, filaments linear, ca. 4 mm long, white pilose, anthers yellow. Ovary oblate, glabrous, style ca. 5 mm, stigma small, capitate.
Also known as Pieris, Pieris is native to China and Japan. It likes humid and semi overcast environment, is cold resistant, and is afraid of strong sunlight. The soil is suitable for loam with fertile and good drainage.
Evergreen shrubs. Racemes or panicles, axillary. Corolla altar to cylindric, pendulous, white or pinkish; style as long as corolla.
Equisetifolia is a species of equisetifolia in rhododendraceae. Shrubs, bark grayish brown, longitudinally split, branchlets slender, puberulent; winter buds not seen.
Leaves clustered at the top of branches, leathery, narrowly lanceolate, corolla white, tubular altar shaped, ca. 1 cm long, capsule subglobose. The flowering period is from April to June, and the fruiting period is from July to September. Produced in Fujian, Guangdong and Hong Kong. Born in thickets.
