This deciduous shrub has multiple suckering stems with intricate branching that forms an open rounded habit. It has dull dark green lanced-shaped leaves and the fragrant yellow tube-shaped flowers appear in a pendant rounded cluster in early spring.

Hardiness zones 7 to 9

Edgeworthia chrysanthais naturally found from China to Nepal and Japan growing in the understory of forests and on shrubby hillsides and extends to the lower mountains at elevations from 350 m (1,148 ft) to 1,600 m (5,249 ft).

It prefers a sunny to semi-shade protected position and grows in well-drained reliably moist organic rich clay loam to chalky soils with a pH range from 6 to 8. It is frost tolerant but drought tender.

The Oriental Paperbush is grown for its fragrant flowers, bushy habit and its bark. It is planted in parks and gardens along borders or used as a specimen in fragrant gardens. This also planted in Japanese gardens and in the understory of a woodland setting.

It is suitable for coastal and low mountain regions and establishes in 3-5 years and is long lived. The bark fibres are used commercially to make high-class traditional Japanese paper called 'Mitsumata paper'. ID 2726

Edgeworthia (edj-WOR-thee-uh) chrysantha (kris-ANTH-uh)

Thymelaeaceae (TY-mel-ee-AY-see-ee)
Daphne Family