Japanese Pagodatree
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Styphnolobium japonicum
- Height: 50’ - 70’
- Site characteristics: Clay, loam, sandy soils; full sun
- Zone: 5b - 9a
- Wet/dry: Tolerates drought
- Native range: Eastern Asia
- Salt: Tolerant
- pH: 5.0 - 8.2
- Other: Fixes own nitrogen. Attractive, cream-colored flowers in late July
- Shape: Dense, round
- Other: Cultivars: ‘Princeton Upright’ – upright; ‘Regent’ – rapid growth, profuse flowering and resistant to leaf-chewers.
- Additional: Transplant in spring or fall, somewhat weak wooded
- Pests: ‘Regent’ resistant to leafhoppers, twig dieback and stem cankers in colder zones
Photo: Bert Cregg, MSU
Photos: Bert Cregg, MSU (left), and Roi Dagobert, Wikimedia Commons (right).
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