Schima superba prophouse-summer-2027 The Japanese name says it

The Japanese name says it well: sasaba means bamboo leaf

so smooth sumac earns a place for both the fall color and the long-held fruit

for exactly this display

so the whole shrub reads as a soft fountain of gold and green

Photos courtesy of Aaron Campbell

Schima superba prophouse-summer-2027 The Japanese name says itSchima superba is a beautiful evergreen Asian tree with no English common name. It is in the Tea family so related to Camellia, Gordonia, Stewartia, etc. It has lanceolate leaves 5 6 inches long. The new growth is red bronze. Flowers are white and several inches in diameter. Our trees were grown from seed collected in Taiwan by our freind Mark Krautmann of Heritage Seedlings. We have seen several thriving specimens of this tree in the southeastern U.