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Sabia schumanniana Diels

Modern name

Sabia schumanniana Diels

A deciduous climber up to 10 ft high, with glabrous, slender young shoots. Leaves toothless, narrowly oblong to oval-lanceolate, slenderly pointed, shortly tapered to rounded at the base, 1 to 4 in. long, 13 to 112 in. wide, glabrous; stalk slender, 16 to 13 in. long. Flowers 14 in. long, cup-shaped, three to six in axillary cymes, with a slender main-stalk up to 112 in. long. Sepals small, rounded-triangular; petals greenish or dull purple, oval, blunt, 15 in. long; stamens about as long as the petals. Fruits kidney-shaped, 14 in. wide, blue-black, ripe in October, the sepals persisting at the base.

Native of W. China; introduced by Wilson in 1908. It differs from S. latifolia in its narrower, smaller, glabrous leaves and longer, more slender flower-stalks. It was introduced to Kew from the Arnold Arboretum in 1913 and has ripened fruit there. Quite hardy but of no great garden value. Flowers in May.


Genus

Sabia

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