Plant: Japanese Snowbell Styrax
Styrax · Styrax japonicus
Was $150.00
Size: 15 gal
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More about this plant
Japanese snowbell is a small deciduous tree with a broad, horizontal, spreading to vase shaped crown reaching 20 to 30 feet tall and wide. In late spring waxy, slightly fragrant white bell shaped flowers with yellow stamens hang in short racemes below the branches, followed by gray white pendulous drupes. The glossy dark green elliptical leaves turn gold and red in fall, and the gray brown bark carries orange interlacing fissures that give winter interest. It grows in full sun or partial shade in clay, loam or sandy soil that is acid to neutral and well drained. It is relatively problem free and salt tolerant.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 30 ft tall and 30 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Japanese snowbell is a small deciduous tree with a broad, horizontal, spreading to vase shaped crown reaching 20 to 30 feet tall and wide. In late spring waxy, slightly fragrant white bell shaped flowers with yellow stamens hang in short racemes below the branches, followed by gray white pendulous drupes. The glossy dark green elliptical leaves turn gold and red in fall, and the gray brown bark carries orange interlacing fissures that give winter interest. It grows in full sun or partial shade in clay, loam or sandy soil that is acid to neutral and well drained. It is relatively problem free and salt tolerant.
- Flowers
- Waxy, slightly fragrant, campanulate white flowers with yellow stamens hang in short racemes below the branches in late spring.
- Fruit
- Ovoid dry drupes, gray white and pendulous, hanging below the branches from summer into fall.
- Bark & stems
- Gray brown bark with attractive interlacing orange fissures that give the tree winter interest.
- Native range
- China to Japan and northern Philippines
