| Scientific Name: | Kolkwitzia amabilis |
| Common Name: | beautybush |
| Family Name: | Caprifoliaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching |
| Form: | Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border, Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Tomentose, Ovate, Entire, Serrate, Sinuate |
| Flowers: | Corymb, Pink, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Branches upright, arching branches; leaves opposite, broadly ovate, 4-7cm long x 2-4cm wide, apex acuminate, margin serrate, pubescent, dark green; terminal corymbs 5-8cm wide, flowers 2-3cm wide, bell-shaped, 3 lower +2 smaller upper pink petals, May-June, flower stalks highly pubescent; fruit bristly reddish capsules. Winter ID: exfoliating bark (reminiscent of ninebark); opposite buds (unlike ninebark); capsules persistent, gray-brown. | |