Common Name:
Wintersweet
Six species of deciduous or evergreen shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, and entire. Flowers short stalked, axillary, sepals and petals not differentiated. Fruit is a capsule compressed at the apical end. Native to China.
Chimonanthus: from the Greek cheimon, winter, and anthos, flower.
Pronunciation:
ky-mon-ANTH-us
Family:
Calycanthaceae