| Scientific Name: | Davidia involucrata |
| Common Name: | dove tree, kleenex tree, handkerchief tree |
| Family Name: | Nyssaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Open, Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely, Round, Vase |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Spike, White, May |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Dark-red, Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, ovate, most blades 10-15cm long x 7-13cm wide, apex caudate, margin serrate with accuminate tips, base cordate and oblique, petioles 6-12cm long and may be pinkish; flower rounded, ~2cm wide, with many red-purple anthers and a single green ovary, two drooping creamy-white bracts 'dove wings' (one 7-10cm long and the other 15-18cm long), late spring, peduncles 5-7cm long; fruit green-brown nut-like drupe ~4cm wide, containing a single seed. Winter ID: buds plump, terminal, red bud/scales, green tip, shiny; bark orange-brown, scaly; leaf scars each with 3 bundle scars. | |