Description
A Japanese woman is posing in front of thunderberg's meadowsweet flowers in a public park in Tokyo on a fine spring day. Spiraea thunbergii, also called thunderberg's meadowsweet, baby’s breath spirea, Thunberg spirea, breath of spring spirea, and yuki-yanagi in Japanese, is a dense, twiggy, upright, deciduous shrub with wiry, outward-arching branching. Native to Japan and China, it is particularly noted for its early spring bloom (April before foliage) of tiny white flowers in clusters.