Plant: West Coast - Schip Laurel
Cherry Laurel · Prunus laurocerasus 'Schipkaensis'
Size: 5 gal
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More about this plant
An upright broadleaf evergreen shrub or small tree in the rose family, growing about 10 to 15 feet tall and 5 to 7 feet wide with a dense, rounded to vase shaped outline. Glossy green lanceolate leaves 3 to 6 inches long set off small fragrant white flowers carried in dense cylindrical racemes in spring, followed by half inch purple black drupes in early summer. It takes full sun or partial shade, wants good drainage with regular watering in hot summers, and tolerates dry soil, poor soil, salt and pollution, which makes it a durable hedge, screen or mass planting.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 15.5 ft tall and 7 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5b-9b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
An upright broadleaf evergreen shrub or small tree in the rose family, growing about 10 to 15 feet tall and 5 to 7 feet wide with a dense, rounded to vase shaped outline. Glossy green lanceolate leaves 3 to 6 inches long set off small fragrant white flowers carried in dense cylindrical racemes in spring, followed by half inch purple black drupes in early summer. It takes full sun or partial shade, wants good drainage with regular watering in hot summers, and tolerates dry soil, poor soil, salt and pollution, which makes it a durable hedge, screen or mass planting.
- Flowers
- White, small flowers grow on dense, cylindrical racemes about 4 inches long in the leaf axils.
- Foliage
- Alternate, simple, lanceolate leaves are serrate near the apex and carry at least two conspicuous glands on the underside at the base near the midrib.
- Fruit
- A purple black drupe about half an inch long appears in early summer and matures by mid summer.
