Gordlinia grandiflora
$77.00 / 5G
Sweet Tea ·
Description
Sweet Tea is a tree suited to full sun to part sun and average conditions. It offers white color in summer.
Benefits
Strong flowers have a delicate, camellia-like aroma and a rare plant backstory customers can connect with. Gives color and visual interest right when much of the garden is winding down.
Features
Intergeneric hybrid small tree; glossy semi-large white camellia-like flowers from late summer into fall; Franklinia × Gordonia parentage
Usage/Use
Specimen tree, shade tree, street tree, wildlife planting
| Gordlinia grandiflora | |
| Sweet Tea | |
| No | |
| Gordlinia is a rare intergeneric hybrid between Franklinia alatamaha, the extinct-in-the-wild Franklin tree, and Gordonia lasianthus, the Southern loblolly bay. It was developed at NC State to combine Franklinia’s cold tolerance and fall color with Gordonia’s vigor, creating a small tree with large, camellia-like white flowers and a mild sweet fragrance in late summer | |
| Best grown in full sun to part sun with average moisture. | |
| Full Sun to Part Sun; Average moisture; Deep, well-drained garden soil. Water regularly the first season, then adjust to plant preference. | |
| Garden origin / cultivated selection | |
| Not Native to North America | |
| Yes | |
| No |
| 5 gal | |
| 5 | |
| 7 - 9 | |
| Hardy in USDA Zones 5–9; protect roots during establishment. | |
| Full Sun | |
| Loam | |
| 6 - 8 | |
| 20 - 40 ft | |
| 15 - 30 ft | |
| Wide | |
| 15 - 30 ft |
| Yes | |
| On New Wood | |
| Mid-Summer | |
| None | |
| White | |
| White | |
| Green | |
| Green foliage | |
| Pollinators | |
| Woodland Edge of Savanna | |
| Cottage Garden | |
| Fragrant Flower | |
| Specimen | |
| None | |
| Upright | |
| Average | |
| Fall, Summer | |
| Summer | |
| Fall, Spring, Summer |
| Consistent | |
| Well-drained | |
| Water deeply during establishment; after established, water based on rainfall and soil moisture. | |
| Not Needed | |
| Medium | |
| Water regularly during establishment, mulch to conserve moisture, and cut back/prune at the proper seasonal time. |