General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 7a -17.8 °C (0 °F) to -15 °C (5 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 10b
Plant Height: 3 to 6 feet
Plant Spread: 3 to 6 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: Bi-Color: White and yellow
Other: Ivory-white exterior with yellow center
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Winter
Underground structures: Taproot
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Provides winter interest
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Division
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Oriental Paperbush
  • Oriental Paper Bush
  • Yellow Daphne
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Edgeworthia chrysantha
  • Synonym: Edgeworthia tomentosa
  • Synonym: Edgeworthia papyrifera

Photo Gallery
Location: Flowery Branch, GA
Date: 2019-01-21
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2021-03-15

Date: 2021-02-22
Edgeworthia chrysantha bloom and Xylocopa violacea (violet carpen
Location: Hortus Lapidarius
Date: 2024-02-25
Location: Washington
Date: 2016-03-04
Miller Library, Seattle
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-03-08
peak bloom time (early/mid March in north GA)
Location: Eigen tuin
Date: 2022-03-13
Location: Hortus Lapidarius
Date: 2024-02-25
Location: Southern Pines, NC
Date: January 1, 2022
Paper bush tree #11 nn-2 (Wikipedia reference: In honor of Michae
Location: Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Date: 2021-03-25
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2022-02-16
Location: Western Washington
Location: Cowell's garden centre, Newcastle UK
Date: 2018-03-25
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2021-02-20

Date: 2022-03-17
Location: Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Date: 2021-03-25
Location: Eigen tuin
Date: 2022-03-13
Location: Southern Pines, NC (Boyd House garden)
Date: February 6
Paper bush tree #11nn (Wikipedia reference: In honor of Michael P
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (zone 7b north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2021-07-25
summer foliage
Location: Washington
Date: 2016-03-04
Photo by sedumzz
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: December 23, 2021
Paper bush tree #11nn (Wikipedia reference: In honor of Michael P
Location: Southern Pines, NC (Boyd House garden)
Date: February 20, 2024
Paper bush tree #11 nn (Wikipedia reference: In honor of Michael
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2021-03-12
Oriental Paperbush 005
Location: Heighleygate garden centre, Northumberland UK
Date: 2009-01-31
Photo by sedumzz
Location: Aberdeen, NC
Date: December 23, 2021
Paper bush tree #11nn (Wikipedia reference: In honor of Michael P
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Meise Botanical Garden)
Date: 2024-01-24
Left: 'Winterliebe', Right: 'Grandiflora'
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA (north Geogia mountains)
Date: 2021-12-06
flower buds with fading foliage in December

Date: 2010-02-08
Location: my garden in Dawsonville, GA
Date: 2021-10-29
Buds set in late October; hopefully they hold tight until January
Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2016-02-06
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2014-01-22
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2014-01-22
Just starting to open

Date: 2011-04-03
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2015-02-09

Date: 2010-06-25
Photo courtesy of: Yoko Nekonomania

Date: 2010-06-25
Photo courtesy of: Yoko Nekonomania
Location: Fairfax, Virginia (Outdoors)
Location: Elizabethan Gardens, Dare County, North Carolina | June, 2022
Date: 2022-06-12
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2016-12-04
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2016-02-09
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2013-03-04
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