tender shoot-Loropetalum chinense

Loropetalum chinense is usually rare shrubs, small trees, up to 12 meters, diameter 30 cm; branchlets with rust colored stellate hairs. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the north of the Tropic of cancer. The northern part of India is also distributed. Mostly in hills and hilly shrubs. Flowers 3-8 clusters, short pedicel, white, open to new Ye Xian, or open to new Ye Xian, or with young leaves, about 1 cm long, with hair; bracts linear, 3 mm long; calyx tube cup like, star hair, calyx ovate, 2 millimeter long, after flower; petals 4, banded, 1-2 cm long, round or blunt; stamens 4, filaments of very short, angular; 4 stamens It is scale like, alternating with stamens; ovary is completely inferior, with star hair; style is very short, about 1 mm long; ovule 1, hanging on the inner upper corner of carpels.