A species that has not long been introduced into cultivation from China under the wrong name only recently re-identified, grown for its impressive foliage. Which emerges a dark green in spring, turning a silver-white from their tips down through the leaf as the sun warms even an overlay of pink by the end of the summer. Bearing clusters of bowl shaped male pink flowers in spring on long stalks. Best colour in some sun, but will grow in any type of fertile soil, sun or part shade. Syn. A. pilosula.