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STYRAX
Commonly known as Snowbell tree
Fragrant snowbell flowers presented as solitary, in pendent, terminal or axillary racemes or panicles, or produced in clusters on short branchlets.
Graceful trees for a woodland garden.
Genus of about 130 species of deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees found in woodland or thickets in Europe, Asia, and North America, including Mexico.
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Deciduous
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White'Pink Chimes' is a delicate pink -
Tall Shrub
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Tree
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Hardy - very cold winterHardy in all of UK and northern Europe. Plant can possibly withstand temperatures down to -20°C (-4°F) -
Full sunShelter from cold, drying winds -
Partial shade
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Additional Features
Good to knowLarge shrub or small tree, of graceful habit. Attractive to bees. Good for woodland garden. Flowers on previous year's wood
Pests & DiseasesTrouble free
Place of originEurope, Asia and North AmericaResistant to honey fungusThese plants have little or few problems with honey fungus. -
Flower ShapeCup-shaped
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HardinessFully hardy
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Scented PlantsScented flowers
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Soil ConditionsFertile moist well-drained soilNeutral to acid soil
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Wildlife
Bee friendly
- When is the right time to collect seeds?
- When are seeds actually ripe and ready for collection?
- Magnolia seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Cornus capitata seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Lithocarpus Seed Collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Rhododendron seed collecting - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Camellia seed collection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Storing seeds over winter
- Embothrium Collecting and Storing Seeds
- Decaisnea Seed Collection & Potting
- Introduction
- Propagation
- S. formosanus & hemsleyanus in June - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Styrax japonicus ‘Emerald Pagoda’ - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Styrax japonicus ‘Pendulus’ - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Further Reading
- How to plant a tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- How to plant a tree
- Ties - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Restaking fallen young trees - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Fallen old tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Clearing up fallen beech tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Spring pruning - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing side shoots - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Pruning and Shaping Magnolia - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Deer protection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Weed Spraying - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing Ivy - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing wire protection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Tree Survey - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Crown uplift - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing shoots below graft - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing peeling bark - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Maintaining variegation - Video Tip ondemand_video
Buy Varieties of STYRAX
STYRAX confusus
very rare small tree with long pointed leaves. Clusters of small white perfumed bells with more open petals than S. japonicus
STYRAX formosanus var. formosanus
the most beautiful of all the Styrax with large white pendulous star-shaped flowers and distinctive smooth bark
STYRAX hemsleyanus
columnar tree with racemes of white flowers
STYRAX japonicus
pendulous bell-like white flowers in profusion. A most attractive summer-flowering tree
STYRAX japonicus 'Fargesii'
a more tree-like form with larger leaves
STYRAX japonicus 'Fragrant Fountain'
weeping habit with pendulous, fragrant white flowers
STYRAX japonicus 'June Snow'
pendulous white flowers. Compact form.
STYRAX japonicus 'Pendulus'
a form with trailing branches which is best grown over a bank to look up into the flowers
STYRAX japonicus 'Pink Chimes'
delicate pink flowers
STYRAX japonicus 'Pink Snowbell'
pale pink scented flowers.
STYRAX japonicus 'Snowcone'
white flowers, pyramidal habit
Gift-wrapping available
STYRAX japonicus 'Sohuksan'
a vigorous form with large leaves and the largest flowers of any Styrax we have seen growing at Burncoose
STYRAX obassia
large ovate leaves and fragrant white bell-shaped flowers in long terminal racemes. These are scented but often hidden within the leaves
STYRAX officinalis
short drooping clusters of large fragrant flowers. Needs a warm sheltered site
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