COMMON NAME: Franklin Tree
Fragrant white flowers smell like honeysuckle
Striking fall foliage color
Historically significant and rare
Saved from extinction in colonial times
Perfect for bird nesting and cover
A great choice for smaller landscape spaces
Category:Tree
Breeder:American Beauties Native Plants
Hardiness Zone:5-8
Height:10-20 ft
Spread:6-15 ft
Bloom Color:White Shades
This small specimen tree is valued for its showy, white, late summer flowers and striking yellow to orange to red fall color. Native but extinct in the wild, it was saved from extinction in colonial times and is a ravishingly unique tree for the home landscape. Perfect for partial shade. An under-used but beautiful small specimen tree. Upright branches hold dark green summer foliage and 3 to 5″ diameter fragrant white flowers from late July through August. Excellent orange-red fall color.
Franklinia alatamaha
$168.00
COMMON NAME: Franklin Tree
Fragrant white flowers smell like honeysuckle
Striking fall foliage color
Historically significant and rare
Saved from extinction in colonial times
Perfect for bird nesting and cover
A great choice for smaller landscape spaces
POT SIZE: 7
Description
Category:Tree
Breeder:American Beauties Native Plants
Hardiness Zone:5-8
Height:10-20 ft
Spread:6-15 ft
Bloom Color:White Shades
This small specimen tree is valued for its showy, white, late summer flowers and striking yellow to orange to red fall color. Native but extinct in the wild, it was saved from extinction in colonial times and is a ravishingly unique tree for the home landscape. Perfect for partial shade. An under-used but beautiful small specimen tree. Upright branches hold dark green summer foliage and 3 to 5″ diameter fragrant white flowers from late July through August. Excellent orange-red fall color.