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![]() The fact our 17 degree F event a week ago didn’t need the 2″ tall children is not a good sign. I just noticed (Jan 13, 2017)a few seedlings under the tree that I’m assuming are from the tree. It still may but our sole tree had never flowered until evidently this past year. We rooted the species in high percentages with a May cutting collection and have about a hundred one gallons to be distributed.”įor twenty years, I’ve thought maybe this tree would just skip on by the invasive category. The tree is fifteen feet tall, an attractive dark-green pyramid, and endured a complete blow-down during the flood of October, 1994 (propped back up, some soil thrown on top of the root ball, and then staked for a few months). It was planted as a small specimen in a raised sandy loam bed in the bottomland section of the arboretum. We have observed the tree at SFASU for three years and have found it to be durable and attractive. This rare under-tested species should be hardy into Zone 7. The Lauraceae family is large with some 250 evergreen species, mostly strong zone 9 and 10 residents. japonicum – the common camphor tree grown in semi-tropical and tropical locations, has suffered limb damage from mid-winter freezes during most winters and is no longer with us. After seeing a thirty-foot specimen at Camellia Forest Nursery, I am convinced we now have a hardy camphor tree for our region. The species is evidently quite hardy only in the ground four years, the tree has endured temperatures below 11☏. Our tree was a gift of Kai Mei Parks, Camellia Forest Nursery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina and was collected in China by her husband, Clifford Parks, a botanist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I can’t locate the species in any of my references. “Cinnamomum chekiangensis, a recently introduced species of Camphor tree, is a promising candidate for east Texas gardeners looking for an attractive broad-leaved evergreen tree. Here are my 1998 comments on a tree that was new to the USA at the time. The conference was held in Conjunction with the Landscape Plant Development Center and the Annual Conference of the Society of Municipal Arborists, St. I lectured about this tree in late September 1998 and that lecture is still on line, as part of the Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the Metropolitan Tree Improvement Alliance. This hardy camphor tree has been in the USA about twenty years. At the time we planted it, I was thinking it’s a camphor tree so it’ll die here in a winter freeze. It’s another one of those surprising performers at the SFA Gardens. When measured Januour largest Cinnamomum checkiangensis tree was 44.5” in circumference (14.2” dbh) and I don’t know how tall, but it’s a well shaped towering evergreen in Asian Valley of the Mast Arboretum. It’s been in the landscape at the SFA Gardens since 1994. If you google this interesting camphor tree relative, you can still find current blogs and fact sheets touting its rarity and good performance. One of our patriarch trees fits that bill is Cinnamomum chekiangensis. ![]() The SFA Gardens have always hung its hat on planting a new tree or shrub species as soon as we can hunt it down.
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