Aesculus parviflora var. serotina Drought Tolerant and reads beautifully against winter

and reads beautifully against winter foliage and bare wood

Camellia saluenensis (long spelled saluensis in the trade)

the parent of the better-known pink form

finely toothed

Two things the common names get wrong: it is not Chinese

Aesculus parviflora var. serotina Drought Tolerant and reads beautifully against winterA wide spreading, suckering, multi stemmed deciduous shrub of slow, deliberate growth, Aesculus parviflora var. serotina carries the same upright white bottlebrush flowers as the bottlebrush buckeye, but opens them two to three weeks later, well into the heat of summer. The overall shape is irregular and almost stratified, the branches layering horizontally, and the medium to dark green leaves turn a clear yellow in fall. The late bloom is the point.