Scientific Name: Rehderodendron macrocarpum
Common Name: Chinese rehderodendron
Family Name: Styracaceae
Origin: S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 8a: (-12 to -9.5 °C)
Plant Type: Tree - deciduous
Mature Size: 7 - 10m x 4 - 5m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium - coarse
Landscape Uses: Shade tree, Specimen plant
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Oblanceolate, Ovate, Crenate
Flowers: Raceme, White, Apr-May
Fruit: Drupe, Pink, Brown, Aug-Sep, (Persistent)
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate, simple, 15-25cm long x 5-8cm wide, ovate to oblanceolate, margins crenate, petioles reddish and <1.5cm long; flowers 15-18mm wide; fruit a dry, woody drupe, 5-7cm long x 2.5-3cm wide.