Rhodoleia henryi Pollinator forty- to sixty-foot crown

forty- to sixty-foot crown

Samuel Buckley

Mexican orange

and the plant earned the folk name kidney-bush along the way

since several unrelated camellias circulate under the name 'Apple Blossom

Rhodoleia henryi Pollinator forty- to sixty-foot crownThe lesser known of the two Hong Kong roses in the Woodlanders collection, Rhodoleia henryi is a handsome evergreen shrub or small tree from southern China and Taiwan, still little grown in the United States and, like much of the genus, occasionally muddled in the naming. Set beside the sister species Rhodoleia championii, this plant carries narrower, more pointed leaves, and the species is reckoned the more cold hardy of the two, a useful distinction