Description

A large, bushy, upright evergreen shrub, featuring bronzy-red new foliage that matures to deep green, marked cream, pink, and bronze; subtle white flowers produce very striking red fruit in fall that persists into winter; very effective in mass plantings

Landscape Attributes

Palette Chinese Stranvaesia is a multi-stemmed evergreen shrub with a more or less rounded form. 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.

Palette Chinese Stranvaesia is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Palette Chinese Stranvaesia will grow to be about 15 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 40 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, but has a definite preference for acidic soils, and is subject to chlorosis (yellowing) of the foliage in alkaline soils. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.