Styphnolobium japonicum (Japanese pagoda tree)
Other names: Sophora japonica
S. japonicum is a spreading, deciduous tree with pinnate leaves divided into no more than seventeen, ovate to lance-shaped, dark green leaflets and panicles of fragrant, pea-like, white flowers in late summer and early autumn.
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20m max. spread |
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20m max. height |
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20-50 Years to maturity |
Stewartia pseudocamellia (Deciduous camellia)
Other names: Stuartia pseudocamellia, Japanese stewartia
S. pseudocamellia is a large, broad, deciduous tree with peeling bark and toothed, elliptic, green leaves with red and yellow autumn colour. In midsummer it has creamy-white cup-shaped flowers.
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8m max. spread |
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20m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Matteuccia orientalis (Oriental ostrich fern)
Other names: Matteuccia japonica , Onoclea orientalis
M. orientalis is a deciduous fern with spreading, widely ovate, pinnate, bright green sterile fronds surrounding long, narrower, fertile fronds that emerge near black and turn reddish-brown in autumn.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Euonymus japonicus 'Latifolius Albomarginatus' (Japanese spindle 'Latifolius Albomarginatus')
Other names: Euonymus japonicus 'Macrophyllus Albus'
'Latifolius Albomarginatus' is a medium-sized, dense, evergreen shrub with pale green young leaves maturing to blue-green with narrow, white margins. Small green flowers bloom in summer and are occasionally followed by fruit in autumn.
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2m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Rodgersia podophylla (Rodger's flower)
Other names: Rodgersia japonica, Rodgersia
R. podophylla is an upright, clump-forming, rhizomatous perennial with large, palmate leaves that are crinkled and bronze when young, smooth, glossy and mid-green with age and bronze-red in autumn. Upright panicles of creamy-green flowers bloom in mid- to late summer.
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1.8m max. spread |
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1.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Astilbe 'Montgomery' (Astilbe 'Montgomery')
Other names: Astilbe japonica ‘Montgomery’
'Montgomery' is an herbaceous perennial with dark-green divided leaves. Throughout summer, it bears plumes of rose-red flowers on dark stems.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Helwingia japonica (Japanese helwingia)
Other names: Helwingia rusciflora, Osyris japonica
H. japonica is an upright, often suckering, deciduous shrub with lance-shaped, glossy, dark green leaves and clusters of green flowers blooming from the leaf midrib in spring followed by spherical, glossy, black fruit on female plants.
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2m max. spread |
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2m max. height |
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5-10 years to maturity |
Chaenomeles x superba 'Cameo' (Japanese quince 'Cameo')
Other names: Chaenomeles japonica 'Cameo'
'Cameo' is a dense, rounded, deciduous shrub with spreading branches, ovate, glossy, mid-green leaves and double, apricot-flushed, pink flowers in spring followed by edible, green fruit ripening to yellow.
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1.2m max. spread |
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1.2m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Scabiosa 'Pink Diamonds' (Scabious 'Pink Diamonds')
Other names: Scabiosa japonica 'Pink Diamonds'
'Pink Diamonds' is a compact, clump-forming, herbaceous to semi-evergreen perennial with broadly lance-shaped, variably-lobed, dark green leaves and upright stems bearing pink flower heads from early summer into autumn.
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0.45m max. spread |
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0.3m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Buxus sempervirens 'Latifolia Maculata' (Box 'Latifolia Maculata')
Other names: Buxus sempervirens 'Japonica Aurea'
'Latifolia Maculata' is a mid-sized, compact shrub with bright yellow young leaves that become dark-green blotched with yellow when mature.
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2m max. spread |
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2.5m max. height |
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20-50 Years to maturity |
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