| Category: |
Small to medium-sized tree |
| Class: |
Perennial |
| Bark: |
The bark is light gray and smooth on young trees, developing splits and flat ridges with age |
| Form: |
Narrow, columnar, or pyramidal crown |
| Bloom Color: |
White flowers with yellow stamens |
| Bloom Size: |
2 - 3" across |
| Bloom Season: |
Late spring through summer until frost |
| Fruit: |
he fruit is a small, woody, five-parted capsule that splits open in the autumn to release tiny winged seeds. |
| Fragrance: |
Fragrant flowers |
| Foliage: |
The leaves are evergreen, alternate, simple, and narrowly elliptical (3-6 inches long), with finely serrated margins. A distinctive feature is that individual leaves turn a brilliant scarlet color in the fall and winter before dropping |
| Height: |
35 ft. - 60 ft. |
| Growth rate: |
Slow growth rate |
| Light Requirements: |
Full sun to partial shade |
| Soil Type: |
Moist, acidic, organic-rich soils and is typically found in wetlands, pocosins, bayheads, and wet pine savannas |
| Native Range: |
Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains, ranging from North Carolina south to central Florida and west to southern Mississippi. |
| Photographer: |
William Khoury |
| Latitude / Longitude: |
(32.48834672°N, -83.92577934°W) |
| Bed(s): |
TREES - 1 Plant; |