Weigela

Representatives of the genus wildly grow in East and Southeast Asia , one species on the island of Java . In Russia, in the forests of the Far East , 3 species are found, 9 species are introduced.

Moisture-loving, more or less shade-tolerant decorative shrubs.

Propagated by cuttings and seeds sown in the immediate spring after harvest, usually in greenhouse conditions.

Deciduous upright shrubs that do not form stolons .

Winter buds with several spiky scales. The arrangement of the leaves is opposite. Leafy leaves , rarely almost sessile, serrate or serrate, dentate, without stipules .

Flowers are single or one to six (rarely more), on young, elongated, leafy shoots in the axils of the upper leaves, white, yellowish, pink, purple or dark red, almost sessile or on less developed pedicels , sometimes fused to a common peduncle . Calyx with five blades connected at the bottom or separate; the corolla is tubular-bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, two-lipped or slightly zygomorphic, with five blades, the tube is much longer than the blades. Five stamens , they are shorter than the corolla; anthers linear, free or soldered under the stigma around the column, the column sometimes protruding; stigma capitate or cap-shaped; the ovary is bilobate, oblong.

The box is ligneous or cartilaginous, from narrowly cylindrical to ovoid-ellipsoidal, narrowed at the top to the spout, formed by the upper part of the ovary, opening with two leaves, with the placenta remaining in the form of a central column. Seeds are angular, small, often winged.

In landscape design and landscaping, this shrub is used when planting groups and one at a time, on slopes and slopes, to create a free-form hedge and in compositions with perennial plants and shrubs.

Weigela Thunb. , 1780, Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar [ser. 2] t.1. 137. ^[3]

Synonyms

• Calyptrostigma Trautv. & CAMey.
• Calysphyrum bunge
• Macrodiervilla Nakai
• Weigelastrum nakai

Views

The genus numbers from 7 ^[4] to 15 species ^[5] , some of them: ^{[6] [7]}

• Weigela coraeensis Thunb. - Korean Weigela
• Weigela decora ( Nakai ) Nakai
• Weigela floribunda ( Siebold & Zucc. ) K.Koch - Weigela flowering
• Weigela florida ( Bunge ) A.DC. - Weigela blooming
• Weigela hortensis ( Siebold & Zucc. ) K.Koch - Garden Weigela
• Weigela japonica Thunb. typus ^[2] - Japanese Weigela
• Weigela maximowiczii ( S. Moore ) Rehder - Weigel Maximovich
• Weigela middendorffiana ( Carriere ) K.Koch - Weigela Middendorff
• Weigela praecox ( Lemoine ) LHBailey - Weigela early
• Weigela sinica ( Rehder ) H. Hara
• Weigela suavis ( Kom. ) Bailey. - Weigela pleasant
• Weigela subsessilis ( Nakai ) LHBailey
• Weigela toensis nakai

Varieties

• Weigela 'Naomi Campbell'

• Genus 1402. Weigela - Weigela // Flora of the USSR : 30 tons / started at the hands of. and under chap. ed. V. L. Komarova . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences , 1958. - T. 23 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin . - S. 574-584. - 776 p. - 2300 copies.
• Gusev Yu. D. Rod 10. Weigela - Weigela // Trees and shrubs of the USSR. Wild, cultivated and promising for introduction. / Ed. volumes S. Ya. Sokolov . - M. - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1962. - T. VI. Angiosperms. Families Loganievye - Composite. - S. 301-309. - 380 s. - 2400 copies.
• Weigela // Flora of China : [ eng. ] = 中国 植物 志 : in 25 vol. / ed. by Z. Wu , PH Raven , . - Beijing: Science Press; St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press, 2011 .-- Vol. 19: Cucurbitaceae through Valerianaceae with Annonaceae and Berberidaceae. - P. 615. - 884 p. - ISBN 978-0-915279-34-0 . - ISBN 978-1-935641-04-9 (vol. 19).

• Weigela : English taxon information on the Tropicos website.