DAVIDIA INVOLUCRATA. DOVE TREE, OR HANDKERCHIEF TREE. 2 RARE SEEDS.

Davidia Involucrata.

2 rare seeds.

A medium-sized, deciduous tree, to around 12m in height, with bright green, broadly ovate leaves with glabrous undersides. The young foliage may be tinged red in spring, as well as the foliage taking on rich red and yellow autumnal hues. The small flowers are held between a pair of conspicuous creamy-white, handkerchief-like, ovate bracts and are followed by greenish-brown elliptic to ovoid fruits in autumn

They look like doves! Amazing beauty and rare to find.

Height over 12 metres.

Spread. Wider than 8metres

Time to ultimate height 20-50 years

But quite fast growing.

Likes most soils, ie loam, chalk,, sand, clay.

Most Ph. 

Likes moist but well drained

Full sun or partial sun.