Laceshrub

Neillia incisa (synonym Stephanandra incisa), commonly known as lace shrub or cutleaf stephanandra, is a small, gracefully spreading, deciduous shrub of the family Rosaceae, native to eastern Asia, including Korea, Japan and adjacent China, where it grows on mountain slopes, forest margins and ravines. The plant typically reaches 1–2 m in height with slender, arching, zig-zagging brown stems that often root where they touch the ground, forming dense thickets. The leaves are alternate, ovate to broadly ovate, 3–6 cm long, deeply lobed and incised with sharply double-serrate margins, on slender petioles 5–15 mm long with small persistent stipules. The foliage is fresh green in summer, turning rich orange to red-purple in autumn. The inflorescence is a slender, loose terminal panicle 3–8 cm long of many small flowers; each flower is 4–6 mm across with five white to greenish-white petals, five sepals and numerous stamens. The fruit is a small, more or less inflated, pubescent follicle containing one or two seeds. The species flowers in early summer and is widely grown as an ornamental for its delicate foliage and arching habit.