About
Dipelta ventricosa, the ventricose dipelta, is an upright, spreading deciduous shrub to around 2 m with pale-green, pointed leaves and scented, trumpet-shaped flowers in late spring � pink or pale purple outside, white inside with deep-orange markings � subtended by broadly heart-shaped, papery bracts that persist as the elongated, deep-purple fruits develop. An ornamental and fragrant shrub for a sheltered, sunny or partly shaded border.
About the genus
Dipelta are deciduous shrubs from China with simple, opposite leaves and clusters of fragrant, bell-shaped flowers in late spring or summer, subtended by conspicuous, papery bracts that persist around the developing fruit. Ornamental and fragrant border shrubs.
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