Description

Boasts showy, fragrant white flowers and foliage; keep shrub form to reach the edible, juicy, black berries; prune lower branches to show off the wonderful exfoliating orange bark; has denser growth in full-sun; a large tree in hotter climates

Landscape Attributes

Orange-bark Myrtle is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Orange-bark Myrtle is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Orange-bark Myrtle will grow to be about 19 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 10 feet. It has a low canopy, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 80 years or more.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This species is not originally from North America.