Black Jetbead               ro-do-TI-pos SKAN-denz

• Deciduous shrub to 6 ft (1.8 m) possibly more, mounded, spreading branches.  Leaves opposite, simple, to 6 × 4 cm, ovate, acuminate, rounded at base, biserrate, corrugated above, yellow-pubescent below.  Flowers white, to 4 cm wide, solitary, terminal, 4-lobed, 4 bracts (epicalyx, i.e., resemble the outer calyx).  Fruit to 8 mm, 1-5, glossy, black, persist into winter.
• Sun to shade.  Tolerates a wide range of soil conditions.  Tough plant.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 4.    Native to China and Japan.
• Rhodotypos: from the Greek rhodon, rose, and typos, a reference to the similarity of the flower to that of a rose.    scandens: climbing.
• Portland, Oregon: Elk Rock.