Dipelta Floribunda

Dipelta Floribunda - Among the recent discoveries in China are four species of the interesting group called Dipelta. Allied to the Honeysuckles, they are distinct in their fruits, which have attached to them two shield-like discs of the same texture as the wings of Elm seeds. The blossoms are funnel-shaped, 1 inch to 1 1/4 inches long, dividing at the mouth into five rounded divisions and measuring there 1 inch across; they are pale pink, stained with yellow in the throat, and fragrant. It is deciduous and described as being 10 to 15 feet high in a wild state, the bark of the stem and older branches peeling off in thin flakes.

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