Abeliophyllum distichum roseum Pollinator the parent plant having survived

the parent plant having survived a North Carolina winter that bottomed out at minus nine

and a rare

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Abeliophyllum distichum roseum Pollinator the parent plant having survivedAbeliophyllum is a genus of exactly one species, a quiet distinction it has held since botanists first described it from Korea in 1919. It belongs to the olive family alongside lilac and true forsythia, and in the wild it survives at only a handful of sites in the Korean hills, where it is now protected by law as an endangered plant. By the 1930s it had reached gardens in Europe and North America and earned an Award of Merit from the Royal