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Sorbaria kirilowii (Regel) Maxim.

Giant false spiraea (en), Sorbaire (fr), Sorbaire de Kirilow (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Sorbaria

Characteristics

Shrubs to 3 m tall. Branches erect; branchlets glabrous; buds red-brown. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 8–15 mm, glabrous or subglabrous, apex obtuse or acute. Leaflets 13–21, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 4–7 × 1.5–2 cm, glabrous on both surfaces or abaxially pubescent in vein axils, lateral veins in 15–23 pairs, reticulate veins conspicuous, base cuneate to rounded, apex acuminate or caudate. Panicle dense, 7–11 × 5–20 cm; peduncle and pedicels glabrous; bracts lanceolate, 2–5 mm, glabrous, apex acuminate. Flowers 5–7 mm in diam.; pedicel 3–4 mm. Hypanthium shallowly cupular, glabrous on both surfaces. Sepals persistent and reflexed (rarely spreading) in fruit, ovate to oblong, glabrous, apex obtuse. Petals white, obovate or broadly ovate, 4–5 mm. Stamens ca. 20, slightly shorter than or equaling petals. Style lateral. Follicles cylindric, ca. 3 mm; fruiting pedicel erect. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Sep–Oct.
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Plants 15–70 dm. Leaves: blade 14–35 × 8–17 cm; leaflets 13–21, oblong-ovate, (30–)60–90(–130) × (10–)13–30(–40) mm, abaxial surface with simple hairs to 0.8 mm in vein axils, sometimes also stipitate-stellate, adaxial glabrous. Inflorescences (7–)20–30(–42) × (5–)10–17(–33) cm. Pedicels (and axes) usually glabrous. Flowers 5–9 mm diam. (anther tip to tip); hypanthium glabrous; sepals ovate-rounded, margins entire; petals orbicular, 1.9–3.5 mm diam.; stamens 20–25, those opposite petals 1–1.5 mm, others 1.9–2.5(–4.5) mm; ovaries glabrous or nearly so, styles 1–1.2 mm. Follicles 3–5.3 mm, glabrous or nearly so.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 2.5 - 4.0
Mature height (meter) 2.5 - 4.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity 4-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-8

Usage

Uses environmental use medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, seedlings or suckers.
Mode cuttings seedlings suckers
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -23
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Sorbaria kirilowii unspecified picture

Distribution

Sorbaria kirilowii world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:741576-1
WFO ID wfo-0000984624
COL ID 4YB6T
BDTFX ID 65252
INPN ID 124298
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Sorbaria kirilowii Spiraea kirilowii Schizonotus arboreus Sorbaria arborea Sorbaria assurgens Sorbaria sorbifolia var. kirilowii
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