Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Abelia x grandiflora
Common name
None
Family
Caprifoliaceae
Where found
Garden escape. Sydney area and near Picton. Blue Mountains.
Notes
Introduced shrub to 2.5 m high, branches arching or sprawling. Bark light brown, peeling when older. Young stems wiry, hairy. Leaves opposite each other, 2–5 cm long, oval with pointed tips, glossy dark green above, often tinged red, paler beneath, turning bronze in autumn and winter, margins shallowly toothed. Flowers white, sometimes tinged light pink, 20 mm long, tubular to bell shaped, with 5 lobes, falling early. Calyx pinkish-bronze, remaining at the seeding stage. Flowers in clusters of 3 to 5. Flowering Jan–April.
Abelia chinensis x Abelia uniflora
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Abelia~x+grandiflora (accessed 29 April 2021)
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