Elaeagnus Leaf

Prized for their silvery foliage and dense growth habit elaeagnus shrubs elaeagnus spp work equally well as hedges and low maintenance specimen shrubs. Best panted in full sun.

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Elaeagnus leaf

The contrasting underside is so densely covered with silvery scales that it appears a silvery white. They are often fragrant. They recover quickly after planting adapting well to most conditions and producing masses of fragrant blossoms in summer.

Elaeagnus x ebbingei sku 3190 a dense evergreen shrub with upright spineless branches densely cloaked with silver scaled green foliage. Elaeagnus umbellata grows as a deciduous shrub or small tree typically up to 3 5 metres 11 ft tall with a dense crown. Stems and new growth are accentuated by brown scales.

The elaeagnus plant genus elaeagnus spp consists of large shrubs or small trees with bushy forms and silvery gray foliage. Foliage on evergreen thorny elaeagnus is very clean. The alternate leaves and the shoots are usually covered with tiny silvery to brownish scales giving the plants a whitish to grey brown colour from a distance.

Leaves are 24 inches long. The flowers are small with a four lobed calyx and no petals. More upright to 1012 feet high and wide than its parent with thornless branches.

Fragrant creamy white flowers appear in late spring early summer followed by orange red berries in autumn. It is a large bushy rounded shrub that typically grows to 8 10 tall and as wide. Hybrid derived from elaeagnus pungens.

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