Plant: Vintage Jade - Distylium
Distylium · Distylium 'Vintage Jade'
Was $44.00
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Vintage Jade is an evergreen distylium with a compact, mounding habit reaching about 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide. The glossy green, leathery leaves are elliptical to obovate with entire margins, and small petalless flowers with red calyces and purple stamens open in February and March. It grows from light shade to full sun in clay, loam or sandy soil across a wide pH range, tolerates heat, drought and wet soils, and has high resistance to deer and rabbits with no significant pest or disease damage. Use it in small foundation plantings, borders, along walkways or as a groundcover.
- 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
Vintage Jade is an evergreen distylium with a compact, mounding habit reaching about 3 feet tall and 4 feet wide. The glossy green, leathery leaves are elliptical to obovate with entire margins, and small petalless flowers with red calyces and purple stamens open in February and March. It grows from light shade to full sun in clay, loam or sandy soil across a wide pH range, tolerates heat, drought and wet soils, and has high resistance to deer and rabbits with no significant pest or disease damage. Use it in small foundation plantings, borders, along walkways or as a groundcover.
- 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
