Widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors

• Has sprays of small white or pink flowers
• Shrub species - one from exotic area
• Often forced by florists for Easter blooming
• Flowering shrub with white or pink flowers
• Meadowsweet
• Flowering shrub
• A dicotyledonous genus of the family Rosaceae

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n. a Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming [syn: spirea , Astilbe japonica ] any rosaceous plant of ...

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Spiraea , is a genus of about 80 to 100 species of shrubs in the family Rosaceae . They are native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere , with the greatest diversity in eastern Asia . The genus formerly included the herbaceous species now segregated into ...