Description
Pinckneya –
There are 2 species of deciduous shrubs or tree in this genus. They occur in swampy areas in the Southeastern USA. They are grown for their flowers, usually enlarged pink or white sepals, and are borne in terminal and axillary corymbs. The leaves are opposite, simple, elliptic to oblong-ovate, and dark green. Grow P. pubens as a specimen tree, it is also particularly effective along the edge of a stream bed or small pond.
Grow in moist but well drained soil in partial shade or at the edge of a stream or pond.
P. pubens – Bitter-bark – Fever Tree – Georgia Bark – Poinsettia Tree – This spreading tree or shrub found from South Carolina to Florida grows to 30′ feet tall and half as wide. It produces opposite, elliptic or ovate, hairy, dark green leaves, to 8″ long, that are paler beneath. In summer it bears flowers with enlarged pink sepals are held in corymbs to 8″ across.
Zones 8-9
