Plant to about 50 cm tall. Leaves pinnate or bipinnate. Leaflets downy. Flower clusters dense and conical in outline, white; late spring to early summer.
Japan.
Source: (2002). Saxifragaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Astilbe thunbergii 'Professor Van Der Wielen'
Plant to 45 cm tall with white flowers. Raised b. Ruys, 1917.