Scientific Name: Photinia x fraseri
Common Name: photinia
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C)
Plant Type: Broadleaf evergreen, Flowering cut plant
Mature Size: 3 - 5m x 4 - 5m (height x width)
Habit: Stiffly upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Accent plant, Hedge row, Mixed shrub border, Screening, Spring interest, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Acidic
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Parallel venation, Lustrous, Elliptic, Oblong, Obovate, Ovate, Serrulate
Flowers: Cyme, White, May-Jun
Fruit: Pome, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Red, Aug
Key ID Features:
Large, evergreen shrub with smooth, glossy, thick, mostly obovate leaves with finely toothed margins; new growth is red, maturing to dark glossy green; it will almost always end up with leaf spots.