Pterostyrax hispida

Pterostyrax hispida
epaulette tree

SIZE/TYPE	medium-sized tree
USUAL HEIGHT	3-5m
USUAL WIDTH
LEAVES	deciduous broadleaf
COLOUR OF LEAVES	green
FLOWERS	showy
COLOUR OF FLOWERS	white
BLOOMING TIME	June - June
LOCATION	full to partial sun
USDA zone (lowest)	4 (down to -34°C)
WINTER PROTECTION
FOR ZONE 5+6
FOR ZONE 7
BELONGS TO CATEGORIES	Deciduous broadleaf Summer blooms Rarities

Epaulette tree comes from China and Japan. It is a mid-sized, often multi-stemmed tree or spreading shrub. Its main attraction are fragrant, showy pendent panicles of creamy white flowers in early summer that are followed by interesting, oblong 5-ribbed fruit, covered in yellow-brown bristles. Flowers at young age. Ovate eaves are mid green, soft. It needs deep, neutral or acidic soil with plenty of organic material. It is fully hardy in our climate and often much smaller than in Japan where it can reach well over 10m. Being difficult to propagate it belongs to rarities.

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GLOSSARY

STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.