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PARROTIA persica
Persian Ironwood

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:: Hamamelidaceae :: PARROTIA :: persica

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Main asset

Very beautiful autumn colors and bark shades on old plants

Remarks

The habit being fairly spreading, provide enough place for its development.

Deciduous tree from Caucasus and Iran with dark green elliptical leaves, turning in autumn with beautiful warm colors from yellow to red. It tends naturally to form several trunks, but can behave like a single stem tree. Its bark is decorative on old subjects, peeling off, leaving yellowish young bark.

Uses: specimen, alignment, multistem

Global caracteristics:

Type of foliage: deciduous
Habit: trained and flared
Height: 6 m x 8 m (20 ft x 26 ft)
Growth: medium to fast
Flowering period: March-April

Shape and colours:

Couleur du bois : decorative bark on old subjects, scaly
Foliage shape: elliptical
Foliage colour: dark green
Foliage colour in autumn: yellow, orange, red
Flowers shape: apetalous
Flowers colour: red
Forme des fruits : capsules

Plantation:

Soil type: fertile, remaining wet in summer
Exposure: sun, part-shade
Hardiness: - 25 °C (-13 °F - USDA zone 5b)