This shrub is at the western end of the Malus Walk, on the Edward Road fence.

Purchased from Pan-Global Plants, Frampton-on-Severn, Gloucestershire.

A gift of E Martin. Planted in honour of her grandfather, John West, who helped Mr Hammond establish the Arboretum and planted some of the earliest trees in 1916.

Native to forests, thickets, mountain slopes, rocky places, and ditches in the Himalayas from eastern Afghanistan to western China.

A deciduous shrub with ternate leaves to 25cm long, each leaf having three obovate leaflets that are dark green above and downy beneath.

Small pink pea-like flowers that bloom late summer into fall in drooping terminal panicles to 20cm long.

Segmented fruit pods which separate at maturity into one-seeded sections covered with hooked bristles which will cling to clothing or animal fur in a bur-like manner.

The species was officially described by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1825 and first appeared in botanical literature and checklists in the 1890s.