Plant: Cast In Bronze - Distylium
Distylium · Distylium 'BLDY02'
Size: 7 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
Cast in Bronze is an upright, rounded evergreen distylium growing 3 to 4 feet tall and wide at a moderate to fast rate. Showy bronzy maroon new growth matures to shiny dark green, leathery foliage, and the plant is grown for that foliage rather than for bloom. It takes full sun to part shade and needs little water once established, is hardy to zero degrees Fahrenheit, and is disease resistant, pest resistant, drought tolerant and heat tolerant. Shape it in early spring before the first flush of growth. Use it for medium hedges and screens, borders, containers, slopes, groundcover and mass plantings.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 4 ft tall and 4 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-9
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Cast in Bronze is an upright, rounded evergreen distylium growing 3 to 4 feet tall and wide at a moderate to fast rate. Showy bronzy maroon new growth matures to shiny dark green, leathery foliage, and the plant is grown for that foliage rather than for bloom. It takes full sun to part shade and needs little water once established, is hardy to zero degrees Fahrenheit, and is disease resistant, pest resistant, drought tolerant and heat tolerant. Shape it in early spring before the first flush of growth. Use it for medium hedges and screens, borders, containers, slopes, groundcover and mass plantings.
- Foliage
- Showy bronzy maroon new growth matures to shiny dark green, leathery, glossy foliage held year round.
- Fruit
- A two beaked woody capsule under an inch long, covered in brown star shaped hairs.
- Pruning
- Shape in early spring before the first flush of growth. Plant 1 to 2 inches above soil level in a hole twice the width of the pot and mulch around the base.
- Native range
- China and Japan
