- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Heathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies
- ›heath family
- ›enkianthuses
- ›Enkianthus
Japanese enkianthus
Enkianthus perulatus
Enkianthus perulatus (dodan-tsutsuji) is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to Japan. It is a compact, slow-growing, deciduous shrub eventually growing to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) tall and wide. Pendent umbels of pure white, bell-shaped flowers in spring are followed in autumn by brilliant red and yellow leaf colours. Its leaves are ovate and medium to bright green in colour. It grows in sunny woodland areas.
In cultivation this plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Enkianthus perulatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 452218.