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Handkerchief Tree
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Posted by
botann z8 SEof Seattle (
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Tue, May 22, 12 at 21:53
It is also known as the Dove Tree. Davidia involucrata is the Latin name. This is the second year it has bloomed. The tree is about 20 ft. tall. (7 meters)
Mike
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RE: Handkerchief Tree
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| I've always called it the Kleenex Tree. |
RE: Handkerchief Tree
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| neato.. never seen it before ken |
RE: Handkerchief Tree
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| Good picture. I love these - they are so different. There was a small one in a local park which was flowering at only about 12 feet tall but it seems to have disappeared. There are quite a few around in larger older gardens. |
RE: Handkerchief Tree
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| D. involucrata 'Sonoma' is known for flowering when very young - mine is only about 6' tall and it flowered from its first year in the ground. Flora, not sure where you are in the UK but there is a massive one at Gravetye Manor in East Grinstead that is stunning. |
RE: Handkerchief Tree
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- Posted by bboy USDA 8 Sunset 5 WA (My Page) on
Fri, May 25, 12 at 3:45
| Introducer Sonoma Horticultural Nursery listed the cultivar on their web site as 'SH1' rather than 'Sonoma'. I have seen the original(?) seedling there, it is still a little thing much less large than the typical tree, which grows over 60' high and wide (in an open position). Probably its small stature is due to its early initiation of flowering. The normal habit consisting of a pyramid of long, level branches produces an impressive spectacle when these branches are lined by the inflorescences, but as with many other large-growing trees flower production by seed-raised plants does not commence until sometimes many years of building crown size have occurred first. |
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| My small tree covered with those massive bracts looks ridiculous. The normal habit that you describe on the species is much more desirable - if I had it all to do over again I would not have gone this route. I saw the one at Gravetye in 1995 and still remember it vividly, with exactly those long, level branches that you describe. Sometimes it's better not to 'try it at home'! |
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