Euscaphis japonica

Also Known As

Sweetheart Tree

Plant type

tree

size

H: 15'-20'
W: 8'-15'

planting zones

6a-9b

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Euscaphis japonica plant details

Euscaphis japonica is a slow-growing broadleaf deciduous tree with green foliage. In summer white and yellow flowers emerge followed by red fruit. Features glossy texture. Grows well with sun - mostly shade and regular water. Adapts to various soil conditions.

CHARACTERISTICS OF Euscaphis japonica

Plant type: tree
Plant family: staphyleaceae
Foliage: deciduous green
Mature size: 8 FT - 15 FT - wide, 15 FT - 20 FT - tall
Flowers: white and yellow blooms in summer
Uses: distinctive bark, fall color, fall interest, ornamental, rare, small tree

GROWING CONDITIONS for Euscaphis japonica

USDA Zones: 6a - 9b
Sun exposure: sun - mostly shade
Watering frequency: regular

Nursery contributed plant descriptions

This delightful, 15-20' tree/shrub from the mountain valleys and open woods of China, Korea and Japan provides compound, glossy foliage on eye-catching violet-chocolate colored bark which is striped with white. Summer brings inconspicuous cream colored blooms which become the unusual and showy summer fruits that give the sweetheart tree its common name; cherry-red, heart-shaped seed pods which burst to reveal shiny blue-black seeds. This rare and wonderful plant was first brought to the US in 1985 by plantsman J.C. Raulston. S/M

By: Forestfarm

Mysteriously hard to find and a tree connoisseur's treasure, the exquisite Korean Sweetheart Tree is named for its splendid heart-shaped vivid cherry red seed capsules, which appear in fall and later unveil round shiny black seeds. Unparalleled deciduous foliage

By: Digging Dog Nursery

Durable small tree that makes a lovely specimen for the small garden or in a mixed hedge row. Besides it's agreeable size, it has small yellow blooms followed by a fall show of cherry-red 1/2" fruits that open to expose blue-black seeds, lovely striated bark - white webbing on chocolate-purple trunks -- and glossy foliage 2-5" long. This J.C. Raulston Arboretum Introduction is drought tolerant and a stunner!

By: Lazy S'S Farm Nursery

This seed lot came from the plant explorations off the Korean Peninsula on Paengnyong Island. JC Raulston brought these back and encouraged nurserymen to consider this beautiful tree. JC himself put a few seed in my hand, and I germinated two of them. One stands at the nursery, and it was seed from this tree that germinated in great numbers last year. Not only a fabulous four season tree, but a wonderful legacy from a great man.

By: Specialty Ornamentals

Introduced from Korea by J.C. Raulston, this is a little-known superb ornamental hardy deciduous small tree. Glossy pinnately compound leaves are excellent, small white flowers ok, gray white striated bark good, pink fruit ripening to vivid cherry red exposing black shiny seeds in fall fantastic.