Styrax obassia Medicinal Unlike the showy bearded irises

Unlike the showy bearded irises that swept Victorian horticulture

The native range is broad and warm

and the whole plant reads from across the garden

The plant takes happily to rain gardens

Styrax obassia Medicinal Unlike the showy bearded irisesStyrax obassia, the fragrant snowbell, is the bold leaved cousin of the more familiar Japanese snowbell, a small deciduous tree from the mountain woodlands of Japan, Korea, and China. Where Styrax japonicus hides small bells beneath fine, layered branches, the fragrant snowbell wears large, rounded, almost tropical leaves up to eight inches across, and hangs long, drooping chains of white, bell shaped flowers that carry a sweet perfume through the