Flower Notes:
White (Summer; white, 2-2.5" diam. and 5-petaled, with white filaments and orange stamens)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Medium to dark green leaves in summer); Multi-Colored (Yellow, red to dark reddish purple leaves in fall)
Fruit Notes:
Brown (Fall; hairy, 5-valved fruit capsule that is a broad-ovoid 0.75-1" long)
Soil Notes:
Prefer moist, well-drained, acidic soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Dark green, elliptical leaves are up to 3" long. Young stems have a zig-zag pattern. Flowers are camellia-like. Muscular, exfolaiting reddish-brown bark. Buds are flattened and divergent. Often a multi-stemmed tree.
