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Sorbaria sorbifolia, the false spiraea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. The common name is also spelled false spirea . Other common names include false goat's beard , sorb-leaved schizonotus , Ural false spirea , and in Chinese : 珍珠梅 ; pinyin : zhen zhu mei ; lit. 'pearl plum'.
False spiraea or false spirea is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Astilbe Arendsii Group; Sorbaria sorbifolia, native to Asia
Some species are known by the common names false goat's beard and false spirea. Species range from New Guinea, Java, Borneo, and the Philippines to Indochina, the Himalayas, China, Japan, and the Russian Far East, and to the southeastern United States.
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Sorbaria tomentosa, the Himalayan sorbaria or Kashmir false spirea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. A shrub with white flowers that can grow up to 6 metres in height. [ 2 ] It is native to Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Himalayas, and has been introduced to the South Island of New Zealand.
Spiraea / s p aɪ ˈ r iː ə /, [1] sometimes spelled spirea in common names, and commonly known as meadowsweets or steeplebushes, is a genus of about 80 to 100 species [2] of shrubs in the family Rosaceae. They are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, with the greatest diversity in eastern Asia.
It is a deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub that reaches a size of 1–2 m height, with many thin branches, arched, flexible and glabrous.The leaves are alternate, simple, small petiolate, with 2–6 cm long green lanceolate, elliptical-rhomboidal or slightly obovate lamina, with 3 nerves parallel from its base, irregularly crenate-dentate in its distal half.
Spiraea douglasii is a woolly shrub growing 0.91–1.83 metres (3–6 feet) tall from rhizomes, forming dense riverside thickets. [6]The leaves are 2.5–10.2 centimetres (1–4 inches) long and toothed towards the tips.