Chinese sweetshrub

A medium-sized, densely branching, deciduous shrub, to 3m high and 4m wide, with large opposite leaves, broadly elliptical to obovate, to 15cm long, glossy green turning bright yellow in autumn. Nodding flowers, to 7cm across, are borne on the ends of shoots, in summer. They have white, overlapping petals in a shallow cup shape round a second ring of smaller, narrower, pale yellow petals, maroon at the base, which protrude to form a tight crown round yellow anthers