Plant: Cinnamon Girl - Distylium
Distylium · Distylium 'PIIDIST-V'
Was $44.00
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Cinnamon Girl is a compact evergreen distylium growing 2 to 3 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide with a rounded to spreading habit. Plum purple new growth matures to blue green, and the small leathery, glossy leaves give a dense, refined look that makes it an alternative to boxwood in the South. Petalless flowers with red calyces and purple stamens appear in late winter to early spring. It takes full sun to part shade, grows in clay, loam or sandy soil across a wide pH range, tolerates heat, drought and damp soil, and is deer resistant with no significant pest or disease damage. Use it in mass plantings, borders and low foundation beds.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 3 ft tall and 4 ft wide
- Blooms in winter, spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-9
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Cinnamon Girl is a compact evergreen distylium growing 2 to 3 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide with a rounded to spreading habit. Plum purple new growth matures to blue green, and the small leathery, glossy leaves give a dense, refined look that makes it an alternative to boxwood in the South. Petalless flowers with red calyces and purple stamens appear in late winter to early spring. It takes full sun to part shade, grows in clay, loam or sandy soil across a wide pH range, tolerates heat, drought and damp soil, and is deer resistant with no significant pest or disease damage. Use it in mass plantings, borders and low foundation beds.
- Flowers
- Small petalless flowers with red calyces and purple stamens borne in short racemes in February and March.
- Foliage
- Leathery, glossy simple leaves 1 to 3 inches long, elliptical to obovate with entire margins, held alternately along rigid branches.
- Fruit
- A two beaked woody capsule under an inch long, covered in brown star shaped hairs.
- Pruning
- Pruning is minimal; a light tip pruning in June spurs new growth.
- Native range
- China and Japan
