Chimonanthus praecox

Chimonanthus praecox, also known as wintersweet or Japanese allspice, is a species of flowering plant in the genus "Chimonanthus" of the family Calycanthaceae, native to China. The plant is known as "làméi" () in Chinese, in Japanese, and in Korean.
It is a vigorous deciduous shrub growing to tall with an erect trunk and leaves long and broad. Its strongly scented pendent flowers, produced in winter (between November and March in UK,) on bare stems, have 15-21 yellow or pale green-yellow, tepals, the inner ones usually with purplish red pigments.
This plant is cultivated in gardens, producing valued flower colour in the dormant season. The cultivars "C. praecox" 'Grandiflorus' and "C. praecox" 'Luteus' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
The plant is not closely related to allspice, "Pimenta dioica".