Plant: Mariblon - English Laurel
English Laurel · Prunus laurocerasus 'Mariblon'
Size: 6 gal
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More about this plant
A fast growing broadleaf evergreen shrub or small tree with a dense, rounded, spreading form and glossy leathery leaves up to 10 inches long. Fragrant white flowers are carried in dense upright racemes up to 4 inches long in spring, followed by purple black drupes in summer. Twigs are green and smell of cherry when bruised. It grows in full sun through deep shade in well drained clay, loam or sandy soil, tolerates dry soil, heavy shade, salt, poor soil and pollution, and is used as a hedge or screen.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 18 ft tall and 15 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 6a-8b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A fast growing broadleaf evergreen shrub or small tree with a dense, rounded, spreading form and glossy leathery leaves up to 10 inches long. Fragrant white flowers are carried in dense upright racemes up to 4 inches long in spring, followed by purple black drupes in summer. Twigs are green and smell of cherry when bruised. It grows in full sun through deep shade in well drained clay, loam or sandy soil, tolerates dry soil, heavy shade, salt, poor soil and pollution, and is used as a hedge or screen.
- Flowers
- White fragrant flowers with 20 stamens carried in dense axillary racemes up to 4 inches long in spring.
- Foliage
- Leaves are alternate, simple, coriaceous and oblong to elliptic, up to 10 inches long and 5 inches wide, glossy, with 2 to 8 conspicuous glands.
- Fruit
- Globose to ovoid purple black drupes less than an inch across, ripening in summer.
- Bark & stems
- Twigs are green and have a cherry odor when bruised, with semi circular stipular scars.
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light, Deep Shade
- Native range
- Europe
