Stewartia monadelpha, Orangebark Stewartia or Tall Stewartia Size:3 qt; at nursery only green and deep burgundy-purple flowers

green and deep burgundy-purple flowers followed by pairs of long narrow seedpods

Mature size: 2-3 feet tall x 3-4 feet wide

and often also marshy conditions

Some summer water needed

rock gardens

Stewartia monadelpha, Orangebark Stewartia or Tall Stewartia Size:3 qt; at nursery only green and deep burgundy-purple flowersA four season performer, monodelpha has 2 inch white cup flowers in early summer, a brilliant orange red fall leaf color, and orange cinnamon bark. I have heard several serious and normally sober plant people go into an ecstatic rapture about this tree. Though its mature size is large, it's a very slow grower so it can be considered an excellent bonsai candidate. Among the Stewartias it is perhaps most sun tolerant; drought tolerant once established,