SHRUB I.D.

[johnw]

A shrub seen at Plant Fields Arboretum whose name escapes me.  This was in the Synoptic garden and the Genus should begin with A-F.  I'm at a loss.  At the time I remember telling a friend it grew at the Arnold Arboretum as well and knew the name.

johnw

[Giles]

-are those leaves of the leathery evergreen type?
(I want to say some sort of Drimys but the flowers are all wrong, as is the flowering season, so it can't be!)

[johnw]

Not evergreen and the name has just come to me. Heptacodium. Lovely bark too.

johnw

[Carlo]

...and it's a pity that bark isn't exposed. Ours here has been grown to show off the light colored, exfoliating bark--which is particularly lovely in winter.

[johnw]

...and it's a pity that bark isn't exposed. Ours here has been grown to show off the light colored, exfoliating bark--which is particularly lovely in winter.

Carlo - We had a discussion about that very topic with the group we were with at Planting Fields. Some said the branching pattern was so angular it was best to hide it while others said with age the pruning kinks would disappear.

Seems like yesterday that this plant was introduced. I remember every seed from the Arnold seemed to have sprouted and there were thousands of them. For the life of me I cannot recall the name it had back then in the early 1980's.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

Not evergreen and the name has just come to me. Heptacodium. Lovely bark too.

johnw

Well that genus name certainly begins "with A-F."