Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Abelia
Description
Physical Description
Flowers: Flower Color: near white, pale pink, white
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 6-8' tall.
Biology
Growth
Culture: Space 8-10' apart.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.
Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b. (map)
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Dipsacanae
()
- (Dumortier, 1829) Takhtajan, 1997
- Order:
Dipsacales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Caprifoliaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
- Genus:
Abelia
()
- Specific epithet:
biflora
- Turcz.
- Botanical name: - Abelia biflora Turcz.
- Specific epithet:
biflora
- Turcz.
- Genus:
Abelia
(
- Family:
Caprifoliaceae
(
- Order:
Dipsacales
(
- Superorder:
Dipsacanae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Zabelia Biflora
Notes
Publishing author
: Turcz. Publication
: in Bull
. Soc. Nat. Mosc. (1837)
VII. 152.
An accepted name
in the RHS
Horticultural Database.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Abelia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 27 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
A. biflora (Abelia) · A. chinensis (Chinese Abelia) · A. engleriana (Abelia) · A. floribunda (Mexican Abelia) · A. graebneriana (Abelia) · A. grandiflora (Glossy Abelia) · A. mosanensis (Hardy Abelia) · A. mosanensis 'Monia' (Bridal Bouquet® Abelia) · A. parvifolia 'Bumble Bee' (Abelia) · A. schumannii (Schumanns Abelia) · A. spathulata (Twin-Flowering Abelia) · A. triflora (Abelia) · A. uniflora (Abelia) · A. x grandiflora (Glossy Abelia) · A. x grandiflora 'Dwarf' (Glossy Abelia) · A. x grandiflora 'Compacta' (Glossy Abelia) · A. x grandiflora 'Confetti' (Confetti Glossy Abelia) · A. x grandiflora 'Edward Goucher' (Edward Goucher Glossy Abelia) · A. x grandiflora 'Francis Mason' (Golden Abelia) · A. x grandiflora 'Hopleys' (Glossy Abelia) · A. x grandiflora 'Kaleidoscope' (Abelia) · A. x grandiflora 'Prostrata' (Prostrate White Abelia) · A. x grandiflora 'Rose Creek' (Glossy Abelia) · A. × grandiflora 'Sherwoodii' (Sherwood Abelia) · A. x grandiflora 'Sunrise' (Sunrise Variegated Abelia) · A. zanderi (Glossy Abelia) · A. grandiflora (Glossy Abelia)
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Further Reading
- Edwards's botanical register. 32 1846 London: James Ridgway, 1829-1847. url .
- Flora of the U.S.S.R. [Springfield, Va.: Israel Program for Scientific Translations; 1968- url p. 443.
- Journal of the New York Botanical Garden. 28 1927 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., 1900- url p. 240.
- Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. 5 1912 Edinburgh: H. M. Stationery Off. url p. 179.
- Ornamental shrubs of the United States (hardy, cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar. New York, American Book Company[c1910] url p. 240.
- Plantae Wilsonianae; an enumeration of the woody plants collected in western China for the Arnold arboretum of Harvard university during the years 1907, 1908, and 1910, by E. H. Wilson, ed. by Charles Sprague Sargent. Cambridge, The University press, 1913-17. url p. 128, p. 128, p. 549, p. 583.
- Sargent, C. S. Plantae Wilsonianae: an enumeration of the woody plants collected in western China for the Arnold arboretum of Harvard university during the years 1907, 1908, and 1910 /by E. H. Wilson, ed. by Charles Sprague Sargent. 1 1913 Cambridge: The University press, 1913-17. url p. 125, p. 128, p. 549, p. 579, p. 583.
- The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan = Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku kiyo. Rika. Tokyo, Japan: The University, 1898-1925. url p. 59.
- The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 23 1886-88 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 358.
- The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 172.
Notes
Contributors
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:
- US National Plant Germplasm System: United States National Plant Germplasm System Collection
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5819860
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:148182-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 148182-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 713493
