Japanese Spiraea, Japanese Medowsweet (Spiraea japonica)
The Japanese Spiraea or Japanese Meadowsweet is an upright woody plant with delicate white blossoms which grows to 1.0 - 1.5m in height. Flowering period from June onwards. Popular as a flowering bush or for flowering hedges.
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Erscheinungsbild
The Japanese Spiraea or Japanese Meadowsweet is an upright woody plant with delicate white blossoms which grows to 1.0 - 1.5m in height. Flowering period from June onwards. Popular as a flowering bush or for flowering hedges.
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Blatt Oberseite
Short-stalked, ovate to lance-like leaves, alternate, in two rows, with pointed or sharply pointed tip, wedge-shaped base and double serrated edge. Leaves are green above, pale green below. 2-8cm long, 1-5cm wide. Slightly wrinkled surface.
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Blatt Unterseite
Short-stalked, ovate to lance-like leaves, alternate, in two rows, with pointed or sharply pointed tip, wedge-shaped base and double serrated edge. Leaves are green above, pale green below. 2-8cm long, 1-5cm wide. Slightly wrinkled surface.
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Blüten
Flowering period VI-VII. Pretty white or reddish blossoms with 5 petals each, 0.4-0.6cm wide. Corymbs are 5-10cm wide and of particular ornamental value.
Anwendung
Flowering bush, preliminary planting, flowering hedges, bee pastures, for planting in groups, parks
Heimatgebiete
China, Japan
Standortparameter
Light: sunny to off-sun; soil type: sandy-loamy to loamy; nutrient concentration: normal to high; pH value of the soil: acid to slightly alkaline; soil: fresh to moist.
Ansprüche
Plant for shorelines and swampy ground; very frost-hardy, not fume-hardy; needs well aerated soil, deep soil, no waterlogging. Light: sun to off-sun.
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1 - 1.5m high
Blätter
Short-stalked, ovate to lance-like leaves, alternate, in two rows, with pointed or sharply pointed tip, wedge-shaped base and double serrated edge. Leaves are green above, pale green below. 2-8cm long, 1-5cm wide. Slightly wrinkled surface.
Blüten
Flowering period VI-VII. Pretty white or reddish blossoms with 5 petals each, 0.4-0.6cm wide. Corymbs are 5-10cm wide and of particular ornamental value.
Früchte
Bare spreading fruit with upright style.
Rinde
Dark brown or grey-brown, finely scaled bark. Branches are yellowish brown, sometimes dark brown or pale purple-brown, with longitudinally ribbed or furrowed surface, with round cross-section, sometimes also slightly edged.
Wurzel
Surface-rooter; dense network of roots.