A Tough Small Tree with Late-Summer Color

In 1985 , internationally renowned plantsman JC Raulston bring back seeds of Korean sweetheart Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to the North Carolina State University Arboretum ( now the JC Raulston Arboretum ) for evaluation . JC had become renowned forhis launching of great decorative plant , include specie and cultivar of tree , bush , and perennial . In 1993 , as curator of the Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College in southeastern Pennsylvania , I received a small box from JC that contained seedlings of Korean sweetheart tree diagram . Over the next two decades , we too evaluated this tree , which has turned out to be durable and extremely cosmetic .

This modest , upright tree diagram can get hold of 20 infantry improbable ( sometimes more)at maturity . It can be grown as a single - trunked Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , but often it is multistemmed with , at last , a vase - shaped habit . In summer , it has open panicles of sensationalistic - white nonshowy flowers that top to stunning late summer pink - red , heart - shaped seedpods that demarcation with the pinnately chemical compound leaf . The foliation turns to nuance of Bourgogne and purple in fall .

Korean sweetheart tree diagram is tolerant of urban stipulation , include poor soil . On a recent paseo around Swarthmore , I saw a Korean sweetheart tree planted as a modest street tree diagram . Probably due to its rarity it has never become popular , but it would make a unspoilt nominee for planting under top executive lines . This minuscule specimen tree is grown for its exceptional gloaming fruiting , which can occur from August through September depending on the location , but it can also have a middling long season of ornamentation . It thrives in the Mid - Atlantic but has shown an adaptability to the heat of the Southeast and is report to also thrive into easterly Texas .

It is well displayed as a single specimen . At the Scott Arboretum , a individual tree is plant in front of the dark evergreen backdrop of a Japanese red cedar ( Cryptomeria japonica‘Yoshino ’ , Zones 5–8 ) . It would seem equally stunning with a mass planting of a ground - covering shrub such as ‘ Henry ’s Garnet ’ Virginia sweetspire ( Itea virginica‘Henry ’s Garnet ’ , Zones 5–9 ) or a muckle planting of a diminutive oakleaf hydrangea such as ‘ Ruby Slippers ’ ( Hydrangea quercifolia‘Ruby slider ’ , Zones 5–9 ) . In both case , the sinister leaf would be a great color combining for the arresting , red fruits of Korean sweetheart tree .

Name: Korean sweetheart tree (Euscaphis japonica)

Zones:6–8

Conditions : Full sun to fond tincture ; tolerant of a full range of dirt conditions

Native range : China , Korea , and Japan

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Andrew Bunting is the vice president of public horticulture for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society .

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