Scientific name: Photinia x fraseri

Common name: red tip

Family name: Rosaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

USDA hardiness zone: 7

Mature height and spread: 3-5m tall, 4-5m wide

Form: oval, upright

Water use: moderate

Soil requirements: acidic, well-drained

Leaf arrangement: simple, alternate

Fall colour: none

Flower/cone/fruit description: flowers; panicle and showy and white. Pome; insignificant.

Limitations: bit old fashioned looking. When pruned as hedge; get half cut leaves and looks bad (same issue with all large leaf hedges).

Suitable uses: mixed shrub border. Screening. Hedge. Often looks very healthy.

Quick ID: evergreen. Shrub. Simple. Alternate. Bronze/red leaves when young. Serrate. Very showy leaves (red tip in spring). Long, linear leaves. Spiky looking buds (can be red).

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https://plantdatabase.kwantlen.ca/plant/plantImages/275?image=h