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Purple Texas Mountain Laurel

Texas mountain laurel sophora secundiflora. They can be planted in full sun and tolerate partial shade as well.

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Purple texas mountain laurel

Keep reading to learn more about growing texas mountain laurels in the landscape. Very showy small tree. A great flowering small to a medium sized evergreen tree.

The texas mountain laurel tree calia secundiflora also called the mescal bean. The texas mountain laurel sophora secundiflora is an excellent evergreen choice in your landscape. The texas mountain laurel calia secundiflora is well known for its pendulous clusters of purple fragrant flowers that look as good as they smell.

Fragrant early spring blooms of violet blue flowers in terminal clusters. This multi stemmed evergreen is excellent for use as a large shrub or small tree. Texas mountain laurel sophora secundiflora also known as mescal bean is an attractive evergreen shrub that grows in u s.

The shrub likes full sun and well drained rocky limestone soil. This slow growing evergreen may be grown as a medium to large shrub or trained to a single or multi trunk tree. Slow growing and easily trained as espalier or a patio tree.

Texas mountain laurel grows in limestone soils in central and southwest texas and to 5000 feet in the chisos and davis mountains. Fragrant violet blue flowers in terminal clusters create a wonderful display in spring against the backdrop of shiny dark green foliage. This popular plant is often used as a flowering evergreen shrub but with time and proper pruning it can be trained to grow as a small multi trunked tree.

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