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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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Deciduousminutely toothed, glossy, mid-green leaves to 10cm (4in) long, turning yellow in autumn
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White
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Height1.5-3m (5-10ft)
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Spread2m (6½ft)
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Tall Shrubflowers hang on long stalks along the branch
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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)
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Full sun
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Partial shade
- Details
- Mature Size
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- Goes Well With
- Planting Combinations
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Additional FeaturesPests & DiseasesNone.Place of originEastern China.Resistant to honey fungusThese plants have little or few problems with honey fungus.
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Flower ShapeBell/LanternBell-shaped
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Garden Location/ConditionsWoodland garden
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HardinessFully hardy
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Leaf marginSerrulate
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Leaf shapeElliptic
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Pruning groupPruning group 1Suitable for: Deciduous and evergreen trees, and some deciduous shrubs.
Pruning: Minimal pruning required. Prune wayward or crossing branches to maintain a healthy framework.
When: When dormant in the late winter/early spring. Some in the summer/autumn to prevent bleeding of sap.
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Scented PlantsScented flowers
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Seasonal InterestSpringSummer
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Soil ConditionsFertile moist well-drained soilHumus-rich.Neutral to acid soil
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WildlifeBee 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
1.5-3m (5-10ft)
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2m (6½ft) |
Buy Varieties of STYRAX
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
STYRAX japonicus 'Sohuksan'
a vigorous form with large leaves and the largest flowers of any Styrax we have seen growing at Burncoose
STYRAX officinalis
short drooping clusters of large fragrant flowers. Needs a warm sheltered site