Gordonia lasianthus
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| Height: | ⇕ | 50 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50. |
| Width: | ⇔ | 30 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30. |
| Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
| Bloom: | ❀ | early summer, mid summer, late summer |
| Exposure: | ☼ | part-sun |
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| Features: | ✓ | flowers |
| USDA Zones: | 9 to 11 | |
| Flower features: | ❀ | white |
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Loblolly-bay or Gordonia lasianthus is a member of the Tea or Theaceae family.
Loblolly-bay (Gordonia lasianthus), also called holly-bay, gordonia, and bay, is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree or shrub found in acid, swampy soils of pinelands and bays on the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains. It is slow growing with soft, light-colored, fine-grained wood of little commercial value, although loblolly-bay could be managed as a source of pulpwood. The white showy flowers and shiny foliage make it a desirable ornamental, but it is not easy to cultivate. Deer browse stump sprouts heavily.
Read about Gordonia lasianthus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Gordonia lasianthus, Ellis. Loblolly Bay. Tree, to 60 ft., usually shrubby in cult.: lvs. obovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a short petiole, crenately dentate, dark green and shining above, glabrous, 4-6 in. long: fls. long- pedicelled, white, 2-2 ½ in. across; petals oblong- obovate; stamens short: caps, ovate. July, Aug. Va. to Fla. and Miss.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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