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Beauty Bush — Kolkwitzia amabilis is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name Beauty Bush. The plant originated in Central China and was named for Richard Kolkwitz, a professor of botany in Berlin.
The plant is an arching, spreading shrub, with brown flaky bark and graceful hanging branches, that can grow up to eight feet tall. It is usually as wide as it is tall. The plant blooms in late spring. Its pink flowers are about one-inch long and bell-shaped, growing in showy, numerous clusters. Its leaves are opposite, simple, and ovate, from .5 to 3 inches long, entire or with a few sparse shallow teeth. Its fruit is a hairy, ovoid capsule approximately .25 inches long.
