Gordonia lasianthus

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   tree

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
Cultivation
Exposure: part-sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 9 to 11
Flower features: white
Scientific Names

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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 

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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