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
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, Glabrous, Lustrous, Elliptic, Oblong, Obovate, Ovate, Serrulate
Flowers: Cyme, White, May-Jun
Fruit: Pome, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Red, Aug
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate, most blades obovate, 8-12cm long x 4-7cm wide, glabrous, glossy, margin finely toothed, new growth red, maturing to dark glossy green, usually with fungal leaf spots; panicle-like cyme of florets ~1cm wide with 5 white petals, May-Jun.