Landscape Plants

Only 4-5 species of deciduous shrubs in this genus.  Leaves alternate, pale green, and usually softy pubescent.  Flowers are white, in terminal racemes, 5-petaled, stamens 15-30.  Fruit is a 5-ribbed or 5-furrowed capsule.  Native to central Asia to Korea.
Exochorda: from Greek exo, outside, and chorde, a cord, a reference to the fact that the ovary has fibers outside the placenta.