'Toyosho' earns a place where the flowers can be met at close range: a sunny mixed border
peaking in spring and summer
and avoid low frost pockets that can nip the early flowers
a color no other Itea offers
The reddish-brown bark peels in long fibrous strips down a straight
Polyspora axillaris Landscaper Favorite 'Toyosho' earns a place wherePolyspora axillaris, the fried egg tree, is a glossy, small evergreen tree or large shrub of the tea family, Theaceae, native to southern China, Taiwan, and Vietnam and still rarely cultivated in the United States. A close relative of the native loblolly bay (Gordonia lasianthus), the plant bears abundant, showy white flowers three inches across. The flowers are the whole show: large, crisp white, camellia like blooms with a bold central boss of