Edgeworthia chrysantha (common names: Oriental paperbush, mitsumata[2]) is a plant in the family Thymelaeaceae.

[1] The genus was named in honour of Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812–1881), an Irish-born Victorian era amateur botanist, who worked for the East India Company, and for his sister, writer Maria Edgeworth.

[3][4][5] The Latin specific epithet chrysantha is in reference to the plant's yellow flowers.

[6] Edgeworthia chrysantha is a deciduous shrub with dark green, leathery, single, alternate, lanceolate leaves, 7.6–12.7 cm (3–5 in) long.

[1] The bark fibres of these plants are used for making the handmade Japanese tissue called "mitsumata paper".