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There is a cultivar of a hybrid between the American and Japanese species called 'Brouwer's Beauty' that does adapt easily to cultivation and bears intermediate flower clusters that are erect and yet drooping also. [citation needed] The cultivar 'Forest Flame' is a large shrub to 4 m (13 ft), with leaves which go from red to pink to green.
The leaves are spirally arranged, often appearing to be in whorls at the end of each shoot with bare stretches of shoot below; they are lanceolate-ovate, 2–10 cm (0.8–3.9 in) long and 1.0–3.5 cm (0.4–1.4 in) broad, leathery textured, and with an entire or serrated margin. The young leaves in spring are typically brightly coloured.
[3] [4] Each flower is about 5 to 6 mm long and its clusters with their long blooming season [4] provide a decorative effect against the young red leaves. The flowers usually last two or three weeks. The plant is poisonous if consumed. [3] [4] [5] The toxicity is a result of the grayanotoxins contained by the flowers and
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Pieris japonica subsp. formosa (Wall.) Kitam. Kitam. Pieris formosa , called the Taiwan pieris or the Himalayan andromeda , is a species of flowering plant in the genus Pieris native to Nepal, the eastern Himalaya, Assam in India, Myanmar, Vietnam, Tibet, central and southern China, but not Taiwan. [ 2 ]
The larvae (caterpillars) of a few of these species, such as Pieris brassicae and Pieris rapae, commonly seen in gardens, feed on brassicas, and are notorious agricultural pests. Males of many species exhibit gregarious mud-puddling behavior when they may imbibe salts from moist soils. [1]
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