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Anyone know what tree this is

4 years ago
last modified: 4 years ago

I've come across this once a year. It's in a large rectangular container

Last time I saw it was around Easter and the foliage was orangish/reddish on one or both of these.

I'd say the planting height is about 32-36 inch high *plant box* and the overall height of is 8 feet. So figure the height of the tree is 5 feet (given the higher planting height due to planter box)

Anyone happen to know what tree it is. It really looks great when in color.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xd7mt61apvl7xp2/IMG_0333.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j91m371wpuqttqf/IMG_0334.png?dl=0

Comments (6)

  • 4 years ago

    Looks like a red tipped photinia, a large evergreen shrub rather than a tree. A very problematic plant in many locations. In fact, the first is looking seriously anemic and with some traces of the leaf spot that plagues this shrub. The second looks to be in better health.

  • 4 years ago

    Thx. Looks to be it per google. I've only seen it during this time of the year.....and it's a really lovely color that the google pics don't even show. Various hues of yellow. orange and red. It's like a tree in spring that's showing it's autum rainbow colors. I guess it get's more solid as the weather warms up.

  • 4 years ago

    "and it's a really lovely color that the google pics don't even show."

    LOL!! That's because the Google images tend not to show plants with discolored foliage, probably due to a nutrient disorder :-) Only the newest growth should be red now - no yellow or orange - and the older foliage should be a deep, dark green. The shrub in the first photo is very unhealthy and not looking the way it should at all.

  • 4 years ago
    last modified: 4 years ago

    I don't understand why the one in the pic is a kaleidoscope of deciduous colors, this one is evergreen. The only color change I note is green, established growth versus reddish/bronze new growth. Yes, Gardengal, I know this species has had serious issues in the Southeast with blights, so far, fingers crossed they have not made it north of the Mason Dixon line into NJ, Zones 7a/7b. I try not to have them too close to each other, anything you can do to improve air circulation in a hedge of them is useful. I removed all the lower growth..., in effect to create standards, rather than an impenetrable hedge from the ground on up. I do like them, and DEER by and large, seem to avoid them here. I got these outta Texas at least 12 years ago on eBay and they were tiny upon delivery. They're not so diminutive in size and growth is also fairly aggressive, so pruning is done on an annual basis.



  • 4 years ago

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


    Ha. The triad of colors is what caught my eye in seeking to know what it was. Now that you have pointed out the other one is -green-, I suppose the beautiful one to me was in defecit

  • 4 years ago

    Red Tips have attractive red/orange NEW growth. This feature is more pronounced in the spring when healthy specimens put on a nice show. For shrubs or trees like the individuals shown by the OP, new growth erupts all the time......the act of pruning forces new growth in a natural, reactionary response.


    Those tree-form shrubs do not grow normally like that, believe me. Luckily, photinia are very amenable to all manner of pruning.