Enkianthus campanulatus var. longilobus ("Tsukushidodan")

Japanese name: ツクシドウダン （筑紫燈台）
Scientific name: Enkianthus campanulatus var. longilobus

[Overview]
A deciduous shrub 2–5 m tall, found on rocky places in the mountains.
Leaves are simple and alternate, clustered at the branch tips, obovate, 2–5 cm long and 1–2 cm wide.
The leaf margin has fine serrations whose tips become hairs.
A short raceme 2–3 cm long at the branch tip bears about 10 flowers that open facing downward.
The corolla is bell-shaped, 0.5–0.6 cm long, red with darker red vertical streaks.
The corolla is 5-lobed to about one third of its length, and the lobe tips are rounded.
The fruit is a capsule held upward.

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