Plant: Snow White - Hawthorn
Hawthorn · Rhaphiolepis indica 'Snow White'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A compact, spreading evergreen shrub reaching 3 to 4 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide, with white spring flowers and blue black berries that follow. New growth emerges bronze to reddish and matures to deep green, sometimes taking on burgundy tones in cooler weather. It takes part shade to full sun with at least three hours of direct sun and grows in acidic, neutral or slightly alkaline soil provided drainage and airflow are good; established plants tolerate heat, coastal exposure and some drought. Space it 5 to 6 feet apart as a specimen or about 3 feet apart for hedges and mass plantings, and use it as an accent, border, low hedge or container shrub.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 4 ft tall and 6 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-10
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A compact, spreading evergreen shrub reaching 3 to 4 feet high and 5 to 6 feet wide, with white spring flowers and blue black berries that follow. New growth emerges bronze to reddish and matures to deep green, sometimes taking on burgundy tones in cooler weather. It takes part shade to full sun with at least three hours of direct sun and grows in acidic, neutral or slightly alkaline soil provided drainage and airflow are good; established plants tolerate heat, coastal exposure and some drought. Space it 5 to 6 feet apart as a specimen or about 3 feet apart for hedges and mass plantings, and use it as an accent, border, low hedge or container shrub.
- Flowers
- White flowers open in spring above the new bronze red growth.
- Foliage
- Leaves are alternate, simple, elliptical to lanceolate with serrate margins and up to 3 inches long, glossy and leathery, emerging bronze and maturing deep green.
- Fruit
- Subglobose berries that ripen purplish bluish black and persist into winter.
- Light
- Morning Sun
- Native range
- South China to Indo-China and temperate Eastern Asia
