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Fabaceae
Japanese pagoda-tree
Styphnolobium japonicum
Also known as Sophora vestita, Pagoda tree, Sophora mairei, Sophora korolkowii
Native Plants · Trees & Shrubs · Deciduous Tree · Shade Tree · Ornamental · Street Tree · Urban Tolerant · Flowering Tree · Pagoda Tree · Fabaceae · Late Summer Bloom · Pollinator
The Japanese pagoda tree is a handsome, long-lived deciduous shade tree that adapts well to urban environments, tolerating pollution, heat, and a range of soil types. Plant in full sun to partial shade in well-drained soil and water deeply during establishment; mature trees are quite drought tolerant. It produces fragrant creamy-white flower clusters in late summer, making it a valuable ornamental and pollinator tree.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water deeply to encourage deep root growth, allowing soil to dry between waterings once established · Every 10-14 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 6.5–7
- Temperature
- -20°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Cutting
Hardiness
USDA 5a-10b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 2 ft – 6 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 240 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Deep
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Cape Provinces, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, France, Free State, Hungary, India, Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krym, New York, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Pakistan
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Birds
Sources: trefle
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