Japanese name: オオツクバネウツギ（大衝羽根空木） Scientific name:Abelia tetrasepala
[Overview]
A deciduous shrub 2–3 m tall, found mainly in bright deciduous forests in the mountains.
The branches are dense and branch often.
Young branches are often tinged reddish brown.
Leaves are simple and opposite, broadly ovate to lanceolate-ovate, 3–6 cm long and 1.5–3.5 cm wide; the underside is hairy, with long hairs especially along the veins and margins.
The leaf margins are entire or coarsely toothed, and in young leaves the margins are often reddish.
Flowers are borne in pairs at the branch tips.
The flowers are bell-shaped to funnel-shaped, 4–4 cm long, and the tip is divided into 5 lobes in two lips.
The flower color is cream, rarely tinged with yellow or pink.
The inside of the corolla has an orange net-like pattern, and the outside has coarse hairs.
There are 5 sepals, of which only one is small and spreads out like a shuttlecock.
The fruit is an achene.
