Stewartia rostrata was first collected by Ernest Wilson and introduced to the US via China in l936. The immature fruits and foliage are tinged red and autumn colour can be scarlet. It makes a fine tree reaching up to 7 metres in height.
Saturday, 27 July 2013
Stewartia rostrata
Stewartia rostrata was first collected by Ernest Wilson and introduced to the US via China in l936. The immature fruits and foliage are tinged red and autumn colour can be scarlet. It makes a fine tree reaching up to 7 metres in height.
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
Stewartia pseudo-camellia
Stewartia pseudocamellia (Theaceae)
A native of Japan and introduced by Messrs Veitch to the UK. It was previously cultivated in the US and France where it flowered for the first time in 1878.
A beautiful medium sized tree bearing glamourous, camellia like flowers with yellow anthers in mid summer. It has distinctive peeling bark and good autumn colour too.
A superb speciman tree.
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