Enkianthus Japonicus

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Enkianthus japonicus

Enkianthus campanulatus commonly called redvein enkianthus is an upright deciduous shrub which typically grows 6 8 tall less frequently to 10 15 it is native to open woodlands in japan. Its wide fan shaped branches are covered with cascades of bell shaped white flowers in summer and the pale green leaves turn a fantastic shade of yellow before falling in autumn. Tiny bell shaped nodding creamy yellow to whitish pink flowers each to 1 2 long with pink striping and edging appear in pendulous clusters racemes in late.

It can also be clipped into neat shapes or cloud pruned. Long scarcely half as much wide narrowly oval to obovate fine pointed tapering at the base to a. Its native range is in asia as far west as the eastern himalayas as far south as indochina and as far north and east as china and japan.

Its elliptic blue green leaves are crowded in clusters at the branch tips and turn magnificent shades of orange and red in fall. Enkianthus is a genus of shrubs or small trees in the heath family. For best results grow enkianthus perulatus in fertile moist but well drained acidic soil in sun or partial shade.

An upright deciduous shrub with leaves that become brilliant yellow orange and red in fall. Campanulatus furin tsutsuji or redvein enkianthus a medium sized narrow upright deciduous shrub its bright green glossy foliage gives brilliant coppery to red fall colors. Pendulous clusters of red veined creamy yellow to orange flowers are dainty and delicate.

De petite taille il atteind rapidement 1 50m de hauteur et avec l âge peut culminer jusqu à 2m de hauteur. In spring it offers a profusion of bell shaped campanula little bell creamy white flowers with red veins similar to those of the distantly related pieris. This genus is considered cladistically the most basal member of the ericaceae that is the descendant of the common ancestor of that ericaceae that branched earliest from the rest of.

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