What is the flower name of the elm-leaved spirea? Let us introduce you to this spring-blooming ornamental plant

The genus and family of the elm-leaved spirea

The elm-leaved spirea is a shrub or rarely a small tree, and it is a plant of the genus Prunus in the rose family.

Other names for the elm-leaved spirea

The elm-leaved spirea is also called xiaotaohong, yumei, and yuye luanzhi.

Origin of the elm-leaved spirea

It is produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces and regions. It is planted in most parks throughout China. It also occurs in Soviet Central Asia.

Morphological characteristics of the elm-leaved spirea

The elm-leaved spirea is a shrub or rarely a small tree, 2-3 m tall, with spreading branches and many short small branchlets. The branchlets are gray, and the one-year-old branches are grayish brown, hairless or slightly pubescent when young. The winter buds are relatively short and small, 2-3 mm long.

The branches of the elm-leaved spirea are purplish brown, and the leaves are broadly elliptic to obovate, with a 3-lobed apex and serrate margins.

The flowers of the elm-leaved spirea range from single to double, purplish red, 1-2 borne in the leaf axils, with a flowering period in April.

The fruit of the elm-leaved spirea is red, nearly spherical, and hairy.

Main varieties of the elm-leaved spirea

Single-flowered elm-leaved spirea: bears pink or pinkish white flowers, single; the flowers are small, with 5 sepals and 5 petals, similar to the wild elm-leaved spirea, and the branchlets are reddish brown.

Double-flowered elm-leaved spirea: bears reddish brown flowers, the flowers are large, double, numerous and dense, with more than 10 sepals, and both the sepals and pedicels have a reddish blush. The double-flowered elm-leaved spirea has bark that is mostly split. Because its flowers are large, it is also called "large-flowered elm-leaved spirea." It is a variety with relatively high ornamental value, but it blooms later than other varieties.

Semi-double poplar-leaved elm-leaved spirea: pink flowers, semi-double, with both calyx and petals more than 10. The plant's branchlets are reddish brown, and it is relatively widely cultivated in gardens and courtyards.

Curved-branch elm-leaved spirea: the flowers are small and densely borne on the branches; the flower color is rose-purple red, semi-double or double, with 10 sepals, 5 of which are triangular and 5 lanceolate. The plant's branchlets are purplish red and smooth, and it blooms earlier than other varieties, with a flowering period of about 10 days.

Truncate-leaved elm-leaved spirea: flowers pink. The characteristic of the truncate-leaved elm-leaved spirea is that the tip of the leaf is broadly truncate, nearly triangular, and it has strong cold resistance. It is commonly cultivated in Northeast China.

Purple-leaved large-flowered double elm-leaved spirea: a new variety bred by our farm, with vivid purplish red leaves, double flowers, and mostly pink flowers. It is the newest variety of large-flowered double elm-leaved spirea.

Flower language of the elm-leaved spirea

Fate, the meeting of souls