Scientific name: Escallonia x exoniensis ‘Fradesii’
Common name: pink princess escallonia
Family name: Escalloniaceae
Useful cultivars and selections:
USDA hardiness zone: 8
Mature height and spread: 3-5m wide and tall
Form: rounding, spreading
Water use: low
Soil requirements: well-drained
Leaf arrangement: simple. Alternate.
Fall colour: none.
Flower/cone/fruit description: Pink panicle flowers. Absent fruit.
Limitations: tender. Branches die back in minus 10.
Suitable uses: shrub border. Screening. Does well being pruned because flowers on tip. Arromatic.
Quick ID: evergreen. Shrub. Simple. Alternate. Pink panicle flowers on tips of branches. Glandular (little bit sticky on stem and leaves); teeth on tip.