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Botanical Description

in part). A shrublet rarely above 25cm in height with crimson winter buds and grey-barked stems some of which are usually more or less prostrate and rooting. Leaves pinnate composed of nine to fifteen oval to oblong-elliptic toothed leaflets up to 1.2cm long. Flowers to 6mm across, pink, in clusters of about five, early summer. Fruits globose, about 9mm in diameter, white when fully ripe. Northern Burma and adjacent China, at 30004000m. Confused in gardens with a 10m tree of the same name, and the somewhat larger shrublet S. reducta, q.v.