Deutzia crenata
ζ*Deutzia crenata Siebold et Zucc. ζ*, deutzia, has been collected twice: Spye Station, Omihi, Canterbury, as an escape from cultivation, several shrubs in pasture near site of old house (CHR 33690, Healy, 21.11.1944); McDonalds Creek, Westland, 2 clumps near road - probably persisting from cultivation (CHR 228167, West and Wardle, 2.12.1974). An erect shrub with rough twigs clothed in very short stellate hairs; lvs all shortly petiolate, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 2-7 × 1-4 cm, distantly toothed, acute to acuminate, rounded to subcordate at base; fls in panicles; corolla usually white, sometimes tinged pink or purple; petals spreading. This sp. has usually been called D. scabra in cultivation and has been recorded as such in N.Z., but this name correctly applies to a sp. usually cultivated as D. sieboldiana with more ovate, distinctly serrate lvs sessile in the infl. (China, Japan, 1975).
