![]() A protected, south-facing wall encourages early flowering, and a position should be chosen where its spicy perfume can be appreciated while coming and going from the house. The plant prefers medium exposure to sunlight or high dappled shade, a fresh climate (hardy to USDA Zone 7), and soft, acidic permeable ground not waterlogged in winter. DingĬhimonanthus praecox ("wintersweet") is the only species widely grown as an ornamental plant, for its spicily scented winter flowers these are also used in floristry as cut flowering branches, which can also be forced as with forsythia. ![]() The fruit is an elliptic dry capsule 3–4 cm long.Īs of July 2020, Flora of China accepts the following species: The flowers are 2–3 cm wide, with numerous spirally-arranged yellow or white tepals they are strongly scented, and produced in late winter or early spring before the new leaves. ![]() The leaves are opposite, entire, 7–20 cm long and 3–7 cm broad. ![]() They are deciduous or evergreen shrubs growing to 2–13 m tall. ![]() The genus includes three to six species depending on taxonomic interpretation six are accepted by the Flora of China. Chimonanthus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Calycanthaceae, native to China, but is also cultivated elsewhere in Asia, including Iran. ![]()
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