Silverbell

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

Michigan, NY to Texas

Location

Cornell Class of 1923 Flowering Tree Collection, Newman Meadow

Source of plant

Schichtel's Nursery, Cayuga Landscape Company, Woodlanders Inc., Princeton Nurseries

Description

Small tree or shrub, to 6m; branches divaricate, initially grey stellate-tomentose, becoming glabrous. Leaves 5-16 X 4-7cm, ovate-lanceolate, rounded or cuneate at base, acute or acuminate, serrulate,glabrous above, grey stellate-pubescent beneath; petiole 1-2cm, downy. Flowers 2-6 per fascicle; calyxcupuliform, 4mm, exterior glabrous or tomentose; corolla white, 1-1.5 X 1-1.5cm, lobes shallow, semi-orbicular to broadly ovate; stamens 10-16, filaments villose; ovary 4-celled; pedicel 1-2cm. Fruit 4cm, oblong to obovoid-oblong, indehiscent, 4-winged; seeds 1-3. Spring.

USDA Hardiness Zone

4