Enkianthus Pagoda

Vanessa richins myers is a seasoned horticulturist garden writer and educator with 10 years of experience in the horticulture and gardening space. Enkianthus sometimes known as pagoda bush is a little known genus in the heather family ericaceae which also includes rhododendrons azaleas blueberries huckleberries and of course heathers although its flowers are not as showy as most other spring blooming shrubs it s a lovely plant with subtle charms.

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Enkianthus pagoda

Campanulatus is a large deciduous shrub of erect habit with small elliptic leaves turning bright red orange and yellow in autumn. Other common names redvein enkianthus. Enkianthus campanulatus pagoda from burncoose nurseries available online to buy information.

Genus enkianthus are deciduous shrubs with simple alternate leaves often colouring brilliantly in autumn and umbels of racemes of small urn or bell shaped flowers in spring or summer. Pink flowers with red veins. Enkianthus campanulatus commonly called redvein enkianthus is an upright deciduous shrub which typically grows 6 8 tall less frequently to 10 15 it is native to open woodlands in japan.

Learn about the spruce s editorial process. Deciduous elliptic toothed dull green leaves to 6cm 2 in long turning orange yellow to red in autumn shades of pink all shades of pink through to carmine red striped veined or multicoloured red veins. Uncommon in seattle area gardens and throughout the us it deserves to be more.

However they do need soil that is on the acid side native to asia and. This genus is considered cladistically the most basal member of the ericaceae that is the descendant of the common ancestor of that ericaceae that branched earliest from the rest of. Tiny bell shaped nodding creamy yellow to whitish pink flowers each to 1 2 long with pink striping and edging appear in pendulous clusters racemes in late.

Its elliptic blue green leaves are crowded in clusters at the branch tips and turn magnificent shades of orange and red in fall. They are not widely grown although they probably should be because they are so unfussy. Its native range is in asia as far west as the eastern himalayas as far south as indochina and as far north and east as china and japan.

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