Lemoine mock-orange

Family Saxifragaceae. Native to North America.

Lemoine mock-orange is a shrub of hybrid origin, up to 3 m tall, compact in form, with single, white, fragrant flowers up to 4 cm in diameter, borne in raceme-like inflorescences of 3–7 flowers. Blooms abundantly in June. Flowering duration 16–19 days.

Popular cultivars in cultivation include: Альбатр (Albatre), with densely double flowers up to 3.7 cm in diameter, gathered 7–9 per inflorescence; Виржиналь (Virginal), with very large, up to 6 cm in diameter, densely double, snow-white flowers, gathered 9–12 in dense inflorescences up to 12–14 cm long; Норма (Norma), with snow-white flowers up to 5.5 cm in diameter in inflorescences 8–12.5 cm long, forming broadly conical, loose sultans up to 50 cm long; Аваланш (Avalanch) - flowers with a strawberry scent; Глетчер (Glet-cher), with sultans of flowers up to 50 cm long.