Common Name:
Paper Bush
A small genus of 5 species of deciduous or semi-deciduous shrubs related to Daphne. Branches are thick, cylindrical, ascending, covered with a papery bark. Leaves simple, entire, clustered at branch tips. Flowers appear in spring, fragrant, in dense clusters near the ends of generally naked branches, white to yellow, 4-lobed calyx tube, petals absent. Native to Nepal and China.
Edgeworthia: after Michael .P. Edgeworth (1812-81), an Irish-born amateur botanist and plant collector employed by the East India Company.
Pronunciation:
ej-WERTH-ee-ah
Family:
Thymelaeaceae