Buy Styrax wilsonii

Small deciduous tree nearly as wide as high. Bell-shaped white flowers with yellow centers appear in June, even on younger trees. A choice selection for the smaller garden.

From western China, in particular W. Sichuan, where it grows on rocky hillsides. Extremely floriferous shrubs or small trees to 9'. It is perhaps the most free flowering and diminutive of the Styrax. The fruit is an oblong dried drupe. The many branched shrub with chestnut brown stems has blooms in terminal racemes with 3-5 flowers over an extremely long period -- according to Harvard's Flora of China, from April through July and fruiting from Aug - Oct. Fragrant starry rather than bell- shaped blooms are smaller than other species BUT make up for it in literally covering the stems in a cloud of white stars. Blooms at a young age.

One of the nice attributes of this species from China is that it flowers so young with its nodding white bells, borne in clusters at the leaf axils in June. It is rare in America and should be grown more. It makes a delightful small tree.