GENERAL DESCRIPTION

• ORIGIN: Central and Eastern China in temperate regions. The Abelia was discovered by British Doctor Clarke Abel in 1816-17. The new genus Abelia was created in 1825 following this discovery. Introduced into culture in 1844.
• CLIMATE: Resistant to -10 ° C. One of the most hardy in the species.
• EXPOSURE: Sunny.
• SOIL: Well drained, slightly acid. This plant is resistant to drought.
• GROWTH: Normal to fast.
• Pathology: 
• MULTIPLICATION: By herbaceous cuttings in July-August.
• Use: Hedge, boarder or isolated.
• Mérit: Award of Merit 1976 (RHS).
• SYNONYMOUS:

GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY 

• DIMENSIONS: Can reach up to 1.5m to 2m in good conditions, height as width.
• HABIT: Its port is at the same time bushy and flared, supple and dense.
• Trunk: Multi stems and bushy.
• BARK: Light brown to olive green, vertically rift, exfoliating with age. Branches finely pubescent reddish.
• Branches: Woody and cylindrical rods.
• Note:

LEAVES PHYSIOLOGY

• SHAPE: Single sheet, opposite; pennate; blade lanceolate and toothed; pointed top; cuneiform base.
• COLOR: Shiny green that becomes purple bronze in autumn.
• Buds:
• Note: Deciduous or semi-persistent, even persistent in mild climate.

FLOWERS PHYSIOLOGY

• DATE: July-August and can sometimes reach October.
• SHAPE: In corymbe of tubular flowers terminated in 5 lobes, length of a flower: 2cm.
• COLOR: White tinged with pink, rosy calyx.
• NOTE: Perfumed flowering, capable of embalming a whole garden in hot weather. Melliferous.

FRUITS PHYSIOLOGY

• SHAPE: Akene, indehiscent dry fruit. It does not open to maturity. Insignificant.
• COLOR: Green to beige.
• SEEDS: One seed per fruit.
• Note: